''Little Tragedies'' (russian: Маленькие трагедии) is a 1979 Soviet

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directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on works by

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

. Dedicated to Pushkin's 180th birthday and 150th anniversary of '.

Vladimir Vysotsky Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky ( rus, links=no, Владимир Семёнович Высоцкий, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr sʲɪˈmʲɵnəvʲɪtɕ vɨˈsotskʲɪj; 25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980), was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor ...

's last movie role.

Pushkin's works used

* '' Scene from Faust'' * ' ** ''Mozart and Salieri'' (play) ** ' ** '' The Stone Guest'' (play) ** '' A Feast in Time of Plague'' (play) * '' Egyptian Nights'' * ''Гости съезжались на дачу…'' * ''На углу маленькой площади…'' * ''Мы проводили вечер на даче…'' * ''Жил на свете рыцарь бедный…''

Cast

* Matluba Alimova as ''Laura'' * Natalya Belokhvostikova as ''Donna Anna'' *

Nikolai Burlyayev Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev (russian: Николай Петрович Бурляев; born 3 August 1946) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. Born into a family of actors, Burlyayev started his career in film and theatre when he was ...

as ''Alber, young Baron'' * Natalya Danilova as ''Princess Volskaya'' *

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina Lidiya Nikolayevna Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (russian: Лидия Николаевна Федосеева-Шукшина; born 25 September 1938, in Leningrad) is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin. She is the mot ...

as ''Ekaterina Pavlovna'' * Inna Gulaya as ''Queen of the Night'' *

Ivars Kalniņš Ivars Edmunds Kalniņš (born 1 August 1948) is a Latvian film and television actor. He graduated in 1974 from the Jāzeps Vītols Theatre Department of the Latvian Conservatory. He had already started acting however in 1972 at the Artistic Acade ...

as ''Faust'' and ''Don Carlos'' (voiced by Sergei Malishevsky) * Leonid Kayurov as ''Alexey Ivanovich'' *

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as ''

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''Фауст и Мефистофель (видео-отрывок)
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Igor Yasulovich Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (russian: Игорь Николаевич Ясулович; born 24 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue. Biography Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfe ...

) and ''one of Laura's guests'' *

Mikhail Kokshenov Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov (16 September 1936, Moscow – 4 June 2020, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of Russia (2002). Biography Mikhail Kokshenov wa ...

as ''Ivan, servant'' *

Leonid Kuravlyov Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov (russian: Леонид Вячеславович Куравлёв; 8 October 1936 – 30 January 2022) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976. Early life Kuravlyov w ...

as ''Leporello, servant of Don Juan'' * Ivan Lapikov as ''Priest'' * Avangard Leontiev as ''Solomon'' *Grigory Malikov (''episode'') * Radner Muratov (''episode'') * Svetlana Pereladova as ''Mary'' * Filipp Smoktunovsky as ''Duke'' (voiced by Igor Yasulovich) *

Innokenty Smoktunovsky Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist ...

as ''Salieri'' and ''Old Baron'' *

Georgy Taratorkin Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin (russian: Георгий Георгиевич Тараторкин; 11 January 1945 – 4 February 2017) was a Soviet-Russian film and stage actor who appeared in over 70 films between 1967 and 2017. He was the Se ...

as ''Charsky'' * Aleksandr Trofimov as ''Chairman'' *

Larisa Udovichenko Larisa Ivanovna Udovichenko (russian: link=no, Лариса Ивановна Удовиченко; born 29 April 1955, Vienna, Austria) is a Russian actress. People's Artist of Russia (1998).

as ''Alber's fiance'' and ''Louise'' *

as ''Don Juan'' *

Sergei Yursky Sergei Yurievich Yursky (russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in '' ...

as ''Improvisator'' *

Valeri Zolotukhin Valeri Sergeevich Zolotukhin (russian: link=no, Валерий Сергеевич Золотухин, 21 June 1941 – 30 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian stage and cinema actor who performed at the Taganka Theatre which he also headed betwee ...

as ''Mozart''

References

External links

* 1979 films Soviet television films Soviet television miniseries Films based on works by Aleksandr Pushkin Films directed by Mikhail Shveytser Films scored by Alfred Schnittke Mosfilm films Studio Ekran films 1970s Soviet television series Vladimir Vysotsky 1979 in the Soviet Union 1970s television miniseries Cultural depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Cultural depictions of Antonio Salieri {{1970s-USSR-film-stub