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For the opera, see Khovanshchina. 1960 Soviet Union film

Khovanshchina Хованщина

Directed by	Vera Stroyeva
Written by	Anna Abramova Dmitri Shostakovich
Starring	Aleksei Krivchenya Anton Grigoriev Yevgeny Kibkalo Mark Reizen
Cinematography	V.V. Dombrovsky
Music by	Modest Mussorgsky (Adapted by Dmitri Shostakovich)
Production company	Mosfilm
Distributed by	Artkino Pictures (United States)
Release date	1960 (1960)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина) is a 1959 Soviet musical drama film, released the following year, 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.

Cast

Aleksei Krivchenya as Prince Ivan Khovansky, head of the Streltsy
Anton Grigoriev as Prince Andrei Khovansky, son of Ivan Khovansky
Yevgeny Kibkalo as Boyar Fyodor Shaklovity
Mark Reizen as Dosifey, leader of the Old Believers
Kira Leonova as Marfa, an Old Believer
Vladimir Petrov as Prince Vasily Golitsin
Aleksei Maslennikov as Kuzka, a young strelets
Maya Plisetskaya as Persian slave

References

Maya Plisetskaya (2001). I, Maya Plisetskaya. Yale University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-300-08857-1. Vera Stroyeva.

External links

Khovanshchina at IMDb

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Modest Mussorgsky

List of compositions

Operas

Salammbô (1866)
Zhenitba (1868)
Boris Godunov (1872)
Mlada (1872)
Khovanshchina (1880)
The Fair at Sorochyntsi (1880)

Film adaptations

Orchestral

Night on Bald Mountain (1867, revised 1872 and 1880)

Piano

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
- Ravel orchestration (1922)
- Stokowski orchestration (1939)

Vocal

Songs

"Night" (1864)
"The Song of the Flea" (1879)

Namesakes

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