| The Queen of Spades | |
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| Directed by | Roman Tikhomirov |
| Written by | Aleksandr Pushkin Roman Tikhomirov |
| Starring | Oleg Strizhenov |
| Music by | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Cinematography | Yevgeni Shapiro |
| Distributed by | Lenfilm |
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Running time | 106 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is a 1960 film adaptation of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, based on the 1834 Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, and directed by Roman Tikhomirov.
The film, set in the 1820s, follows a man named Hermann, who has just returned from army service to Moscow. At the beginning of the film, he is in love with the beautiful young Liza - who is engaged to another - but soon he becomes fatally obsessed with learning the secret to a winning card combination from Liza's grandmother, the Countess.
The operatic parts were performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, and Yevgeny Kibkalo.
For this film Oleg Strizhenov received the Aleksandr Pushkin's Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of Irina Arkhipova "for the brilliant realization of the figure of Hermann in the film Queen of Spades".
Cast
- Hermann - Oleg Strizhenov
- Lisa - Olga Krasina
- Countess - Yelena Polevitskaya
- Count Tomsky - Vadim Medvedev
- Yeletsky - Valentin Kulik
External links
- The Queen of Spades at IMDb
- The Queen of Spades at AllMovie
See also
- The Queen of Spades (opera)
- The Queen of Spades (1916 film)
- The Queen of Spades (1970 film)
- The Queen of Spades (1982 film)