Khovanshchina (film)

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^[1]

References