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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Artyom Inozemtsev, Nikolai Boyarsky, Aleksandr Sokolov, Tatyana Gavrilova, Roman Tkachuk
Crew: Mikhail Shapiro (Director), Magomed Dakiev (Assistant Director), Evgeny Eney (Art Direction), Yevgenia Slovtsova (Costume Design), Nikolai Leskov (Book), Vladimir Ponomaryov (Cinematography)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Sovkino, Lenfilm
Runtime: 118 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 19, 1966
IMDb: 7.3
