Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty -...

An adult man is recalling his childhood years in North Russia during WWII.

From the Rai “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium, Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov, together with the Rai Orchestra's principal trumpet...

Based on the play by Estonian playwright Hans Luik. The action takes place in Petrograd on the eve of the October Revolution.

A musical fairytale based on the poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess" by Alexander Pushkin.

Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory,...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

From the “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium in Turin, to celebrate the centenary of Luciano Berio’s birth, the RAI National Symphony...

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this...

Fifty years after the death of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig is paying tribute to one of the most played composers of the 20th...

On the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death, La Scala opens the Season with his masterpiece Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, based on...

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the...

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in...

An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to...

Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...

The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.

While Dresden is in ruins in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael,...

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8. The extraordinary gravity of the Eighth marks a new high in...

Under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional New Year's Eve concert brings you an enchanting programme led by...