Mikhail SHVEITSER
Михаил ШВЕЙЦЕР
Mikhaïl SCHWEITZER
USSR, 1979, 241mn 
Colour, TV fiction
Malenkie tragedii
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Маленькие трагедии

 

 Little Tragedies

 Les Petites tragédies

 
Directed by : Mikhail SHVEITSER (Михаил ШВЕЙЦЕР)
 
Cast
Valery ZOLOTUKHIN (Валерий ЗОЛОТУХИН) ...Mozart
Innokenti SMOKTUNOVSKY (Иннокентий СМОКТУНОВСКИЙ) ...Salieri
 
Cinematography : Mikhail AGRANOVICH (Михаил АГРАНОВИЧ)
Companies : Mosfilm
 

Plot synopsis
Based on works by A.S. Pushkin. The peformance of the Improvisator in the societarian saloon raises a storm of emotions, feelings, images in the soul of the aristocrat Charsky: he imagins Mephistopheles and Faust, Mozart and Salieri, The Covetous Knight, Don Juan and Commandor.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

commentaries
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