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  1. Mégère Approvoisée, La (2021 Video)

    aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

    Director
    Jean-Christophe Maillot; Louise Narboni
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), £30 (Blu-ray), £25 (DVD)

    Ballet based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, choreographed and directed by Jean-Christophe Maillot to various pieces composed by Shostakovich. Directed for the screen by Louise Narboni. Before...

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  2. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2007 Video)

    Director
    Martin Kusej
    Subject
    Music

    Shostakovich’s four-act opera with Eva-Maria Westbroek in the title role. The Nederlandse Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are conducted by Mariss Jansons.

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  3. Shakespeare at the Movies (2001 Audio)

    Subject
    Music

    Music from filmed Shakespeare plays performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic and Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Kenneth Alwyn. Also included are well known dialogue...

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  4. Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (1999 Television, Video)

    Director
    Petr Weigl
    Subject
    Music

    Produced for German television station ZDF, director Petr Weigl’s screen interpretation of Shostakovich’s opera is based on an abbreviated version of the Rostropovich/Vishnevskaya recording with the...

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  5. Hamlet (1996 Video)

    Director
    Irina Gurina
    Subject
    Dance

    Shostakovitch’s ballet performed by the Moscow State Theatre Ballet. Choreography and scenario by Svetlana Voskresenskaia.

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  6. One Word of Truth (1981 Video)

    Director
    Peter J Sisam
    Producer
    Ailsa Hamilton; Harry Howlett; Finn Harald Wettefors
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 29 min.

    Based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize lecture. Prison camp sequences shot in Lapland, works of art and newsreel footage dramatise many issues facing mankind such as the differing scale of values in...

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  7. Music from the Flames: Shostakovich (1978)

    Producer
    Ian Engelmann
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

    This film tells the story of the Russian composer’s life covering his training during the 1917 revolution, the criticism he faced during the 1930s when he was dubbed a formalist by the authorities, and how...

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  8. Intikam Melegi (1977 Film)

    aka: Female Hamlet Kadim Hamlet The Angel of Vengeance - The Female Hamlet

    Director
    Metin Erksan
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film. Low budget, independent film in which Hamlet is played by a woman (often in male dress) and Ophelia by a man. The film is set in contemporary Turkey; it maintains the outline of Hamlet while...

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  9. King Lear (1971) (1971 Film)

    aka: Korol Lir

    Director
    Grigori Kozintsev
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 139 minutes), £12.95

    Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...

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  10. Katerina Izmailova (1966 Film)

    aka: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

    Director
    Mikhail Shapiro
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    Mikhail Shapiro’s official 1966 film of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kiev are conducted by Konstantin Simeonov....

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