Katerina Izmailova (movie)
Катерина Измайлова- User score: 3.7
- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Mikhail Shapiro
- Production companies: Sovkino, Lenfilm
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 11/19/1966
- Run time: 118 min.
Movie description
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.
