Katerina Izmailova
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994. Dmitri Shostakovich also wrote the screenplay for the screen version of Katerina Izmailova.
Cast
Galina Vishnevskaya
as Katerina Izmailova
Artyom Inozemtsev
as Sergey
Nikolai Boyarsky
as Zinoviy Borisovich
Aleksandr Sokolov
as Boris Timofeyevich
Roman Tkachuk
as Village Drunk
Tatyana Gavrilova
as Sonetka
Vera Titova
as
Lyubov Malinovskaya
as
Konstantin Adashevsky
as
Igor Bogolyubov
as
