Shostakovich Vishnevskaya: Katerina Izmailova

Rating	Not Available
Format	DVD
Year Released	1966
Run Time	112 min
Stars	Galina Vishnevskaya, Artem Inozemtsev, Nikolai Boyarsky, Alexandr Sokolov, Tatyana Gavrilova
Director	Mikhail Shapiro
Color	Color
Language	Rus
Subtitles	English/French/Ger/Italian/Espanol

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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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide