The Queen of Spades (1982 film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Queen of Spades


imdb_id = 0084498
director = Igor Maslennikov
writer = Aleksandr Pushkin
Alexander Shlepyanov
starring = Viktor Proskurin
Alla Demidova
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
producer =
music = Dmytro Bortniansky
cinematography = Lenfilm
distributor =
released = 1982
runtime = 92 min.
language = Russian

"The Queen of Spades" ( _ru. Пиковая дама) is a 1982 film adaptation of the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.

Film is verbatim (including epigraphs) screening of Pushkin's story.

Cast

* Narrator - Alla Demidova
* Hermann - Viktor Proskurin
* Lisa - Irina Dymchenko
* Countess - Elena Gogoleva
* Count Tomsky - Vitaly Solomin
* Chekalinsky - Innokenty Smoktunovsky

Quotes

Igor Maslennikov said about the film:
* "Queen of Spades" came out in me absolutely by such as I wanted her to see - not only as the motion picture director, but as men with the classical philological education. We brought to the consciousness of a spectator the authentic, true text of this piece of Pushkin, and indeed many receive "Queen of Spades" using the material of Tchaikovsky's opera. There is even guide on Petersburg, in which under the photograph of winter groove stands the signature: "the winter groove, in which was drowned Pushkin's Liza". Here immediately several errors. It suffices to say that anywhere Pushkin does not have any Liza, but Lizaveta Ivanovna, who safely marry... And here these myths we attempted to destroy...".
* "... most important myth - about Hermann, who by Pushkin not was neither demonic nor romantic hero. This is such kind of "nemchik", which in Petersburg there was much - 30% of population. Pushkin irritated all of them, to Hermann he gave the pejorative characteristic: no one of the officers perceived nonsense about the three cards, the very same to this believed; passing by the house of the countess, he saw her niece and began to letter her. But not his own, but he copied pages from the German novels."

ee also

* The Queen of Spades (1916 film)
* The Queen of Spades (1960 film)
* The Queen of Spades (1970 film)

External links

* [http://www.jf.pu.ru/win/gra-maslennikov.html Igor Maslennikov]