Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
Credits
Mussorgsky Cast
| Name |
Character |
|
Lyubov Orlova
She was 48, 72 years old when she died
|
as Platonova |
|
Andrei Popov
He was 37, 5 years old when he died
|
as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
|
Lidiya Sukharevskaya
She was 41, 82 years old when she died
|
|
|
Valentina Ushakova
She was 25, 87 years old when she died
|
as Nadezhda |
|
Vladimir Balashov
He was 30, 76 years old when he died
|
as Balakirev |
|
Nikolai Cherkasov
He was 7, 8 years old when he died
|
as Stasov |
|
Bruno Frejndlikh
He was 41, 92 years old when he died
|
as Cesar Cui |
|
Fyodor Nikitin
He was 50, 88 years old when he died
|
as Alexander Dargomyzhky |
|
Aleksandr Borisov
He was 45, 77 years old when he died
|
as Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky |
|
Yuri Leonidov
He was 27, 75 years old when he died
|
as Alexander Borodin |
|
Lidiya Shtykan
She was 28, 59 years old when she died
|
as Aleksandra |
Mussorgsky Crew
