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Khovanshchina (1959)

2h 53m

Running Time

November 14, 1959
Release Date

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Khovanshchina (1959)

Name: Khovanshchina
Released: 1959-11-14

2h 53m

Running Time

November 14, 1959
Release Date

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Plot.

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.

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Cast & Crew.

Mark Reizen

Aleksey Krivchenya

Anton Grigoryev

Aleksei Maslennikov

Daniel Bedrosyan

Sergey Bekasov

Tikhon Chernyakov

Yuriy Dementev

Filipp Fokin

Liliya Gritsenko

Lyudmila Novosyolova

Vera Stroyeva

Director / Screenplay

Modeste Moussorgsky

Music

Dmitri Shostakovich

Music / Screenplay

Aleksandr Borisov

Production Design

Aleksandr Borisov

ProductionDesigner

Lyudmila Kharko

Costume Design

Anna Abramova

Writer

Viktor Zorin

Sound

Yekaterina Ovsyannikova

Editor

Viktor Dombrovsky

Director of Photography

Maya Plisetskaya

Yelena Sanko

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Details.

Release Date

November 14, 1959

Original Name

Хованщина

Status

Released

Running Time

2h 53m

Last updated: 2025-05-31

Wiki.

Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина) is a 1959 Soviet musical drama film, directed by Vera Stroyeva and based on the eponymous opera by 19th-century Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. For his adaptation of Mussorgsky's score, Dmitri Shostakovich was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. The music was conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov.