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Boris Godunov / Mussorgsky.

By: Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881 [composer].
Contributor(s): Stroeva, Vera [director] | Pirogov, Aleksandr [performer] | Khanaev, Nikandr [performer] | Nėlepp, G. M. (Georgiĭ Mikhaĭlovich) [performer] | Mikhaĭlov, Maksim, 1962- [performer] | Kozlovsʹkyĭ, Ivan Semenovych, 1900-1993 [performer] | Krivcheni︠a︡, Alekseĭ [performer] | Avdeeva, Larisa, 1925-2013 [performer] | Nebolʹsin, V. (Vasiliĭ), 1898-1959 [conductor] | Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Khor [performer] | Bolʹshoĭ teatr Rossii. Orkestr [performer] | Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Balet [performer] | Moskovskaia͡ kinostudiia͡ "Mosfilʹm" | Video Artists International.
Material type: materialTypeLabelVisual materialPublisher: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Video Artists International, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 videodisc : sound and color 4 3/4 in.Content type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscOther title: Mussorgsky Boris Godunov [Title on container:].Subject(s): Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, Czar of Russia, 1551 or 1552-1605 -- Drama | OperasDDC classification: DVD/363
Production Credits: Script, Nikolai Golovanov; conductor, V. Nebolʹsin; production director, Vera Stroeva; ballet director, Leonid Lavrovsky.
Aleksandr Pirogov (Boris Godunov) ; N. Khanaev (Prince Shuisky) ; G. Nellep (Pretender) ; M. Mikhailov (Father Pimen) ; I. Koslovsky (Simpleton) ; A. Krivchenya (Varlaam) ; L. Avdeyeva (Marina) ; Bolshoi Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Russian filmmaker Vera Stroyeva specialized in a cinematic adaptations of famous operas. One of the most successful of these was her 1955 film version of Mussorgsky and Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Stroyeva's adaptation deftly streamlines the story of a Russian czar whose life is placed in jeopardy by a pretender to his throne. A. Pirogov sings the title role, while G. Nellep provides vocal and visual menace as the "False Dmitri". The use of a color process known as Magicolor adds just the right touch of theatrical artificiality to the pomp-and-splendor proceedings. Boris Godunov was released in the US in 1959, at a time when the only Russian most Americans were concerned with was named not Boris but Nikita. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Video release of the 1954 film of the Bolshoi Theatre production.

Libretto by composer, based on Pushkin's Boris Godunov and Karamzin's History of the Russian Empire.

Script, Nikolai Golovanov; conductor, V. Nebolʹsin; production director, Vera Stroeva; ballet director, Leonid Lavrovsky.

Aleksandr Pirogov (Boris Godunov) ; N. Khanaev (Prince Shuisky) ; G. Nellep (Pretender) ; M. Mikhailov (Father Pimen) ; I. Koslovsky (Simpleton) ; A. Krivchenya (Varlaam) ; L. Avdeyeva (Marina) ; Bolshoi Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet.

DVD format.

Sung in Russian with English subtitles.

Alan Cutts Collection.