Katerina Izmailova 1966
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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.
- Released: 1966-11-19
- Runtime: 118 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Artyom Inozemtsev, Nikolai Boyarsky, Aleksandr Sokolov, Tatyana Gavrilova
- Director: Mikhail Shapiro, Magomed Dakiev, Evgeny Eney, Yevgenia Slovtsova, Nikolai Leskov
- Review: Katerina Izmailova
- Network: Katerina Izmailova
- Source: CWR-CRB
