The Queen of Spades (1982 film)

The Queen of Spades
Directed by	Igor Maslennikov
Written by	Aleksandr Pushkin Aleksandr Shlepyanov
Starring	Viktor Proskurin Alla Demidova Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Music by	Dmytro Bortniansky
Cinematography	Yuri Veksler
Distributed by	Lenfilm
Release dates	1982 (1982)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Queen of Spades (Russian: Пиковая дама, translit. Pikovaya dama) 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.

See also

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

External links

• The Queen of Spades at IMDb
• The Queen of Spades at AllMovie
• Igor Maslennikov (Russian)