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Boris Godounov (1989)
Zulawski tackles Modest Mussorgsky’s famous opera about the bloody battle for ascendancy to the throne of Russia in the 17th-century! With a score conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, Zulawski adds extra layers of devilish meta-textual embellishment by composing the film’s imagery as though we are watching a theater piece of a film crew making a movie about the opera of “Boris Godounov”! As well, the picture is full of delightful anachronisms that mock the then-contemporary Russian government, alongside jabs at other 20th-century dictatorships. So incensed was Rostropovich by Zulawski’s juiced final product — one that took liberties with the narrative’s sexual thrust, amongst other things — that he (unsucessfully) took Zulawski to court for “the violation of the Russian soul”! “Impressive in its use of whirling camera movements as well as mega close-ups of the contracted faces of its singers, ‘Boris Godounov’ is one of the most original opera movies ever made”
Updated May 24 2020
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Cast
Zoran Cvijanović
Branislav Zeremski
Galina Vishnevskaya
Marina Mnichek / L'aubergiste (voice)
Kenneth Riegel
Le prince Chouisky
Delphine Forest
Marina Mnichek
Anne-Marie Pisani
L'aubergiste
Paul Plishka
Pimène (voice)
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Crew
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Executive Producer
Andrzej Żuławski
Director
Andrzej Żuławski
Scenario Writer
Dominique Hennequin
Sound
Magdalena Biernawska-Teslawska
Costume Design
Farid Chaouche
Production Manager
Marie-Sophie Dubus
Editor
Bojana Maljević
Production Manager
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