Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his...

A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the...

At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to...

An apocalyptic nightmare about war and destruction, set to the Allegro from Shostakovich' 10th symphony.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye,...

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon...

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The...

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and...

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev....

From the Rai “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium, Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov, together with the Rai Orchestra's principal trumpet...

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.

Opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) Libretto by Dmitri Shostakovich and Alexander Preis after 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage,...