Siberian Lady Macbeth

Starring:Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Miodrag Lazarevic, Bojan Stupica, Branka Petric, Pavle Pesikan, Ingrid Lotarius, Stanislav Goldner, Snezana Niksic, Rastko Tadic, Spela Rozin, Borisav Milanovic, Bosko Kuzmanovic, Stanko Buhanac, Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanic, Kapitalina Eric, Ljiljana Krstic, Jovan-Burdus Janicijevic, Milorad Lazovic
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Studio: Kino Video
Product Type: DVD

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lady macbeth is depressing and stark
The second supreme masterpiece of Wajda !

Siberian Lady Macbeth
Starring: Ljuba Tadic , Olivera Markovic , Kapitalina Eric , Bojan Stupica , and Miodrag Lazarevic
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Manufacturer: Kino Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000067IYF
Release Date: 2002-06-18

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lady macbeth is depressing and stark.......2007-03-10

this movie, which i thought would be a Shotakovit's opera, is dark, both literally and figuratively. It is morose, lugubrious and difficult to watch. It does smell of mother Russia, poor and desparate.

The second supreme masterpiece of Wajda !.......2004-11-11

Andrezj Wajda was in an efervescent state of mind and besides he was in the peak of his artistic powers when he decided to adapt this Shakespeare classic . Only several years before the director Akira Kurosawa had released the Japanese version (Throne of Blood) of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, Andrzej Wajda, for his first project outside of Poland, directed Siberska Ledi Magbet/Siberian Lady Macbeth.
This particular version of four hands versions was based on the 1865 novel Ledi Makbet Mtsenkogo Uyezda/Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nicolai Leskov and Dmitri Shostakovich's 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (also based on Leskov's work).
Wajda once more shows his enormous genius employing clever metaphors to illustrate more than a simple coincidence ; the presented dramatis personae with the opressiveand struggling situation in his beloved Poland .
Beware the Hungary invasion was very fresh in the mind of the world and the iron circle after Stalin death became in a sinister and invisible cloud surrounding all the possible stages . The music , litherature , painting suffered a crude isolating state .
Fortunately , the sixties signified a real breakthrough with the ancients state of things all around the world and this fact affected too the world behind the iron curtain . Poland was always le enfant terrible for the rest of the satellite countries of USSR.
Using the composer's music for the background, this crude tale was set in Yugoslavia during Czarist Russia. As you see Wajda avoids to establish a direct similarity with the real world . Left at home with her father in law when her husband is away on a prolonged trip, Katerina takes up with peasant workman Sergei. You will suposse what's going on . But the unthruth has short legs and her father in law discovers the affair and Katerina, with the help of her lover, poisons him. When her husband finally returns home, Katerina has fatal plans for him as well. As usual, Wajda aims for symbolic reflection; in this instance, the themes are of retribution and exile. And remind this hell atmosphere you had felt before in the Mahlerian Universe . It may be interesting to note that when Shostakovich wrote his opera, it was suppressed in the Soviet Union until one year before the release of this film, revived under the title, Katerina Izmaylova.
If you are looking for an incisive , crew and merciless reading of the Macbeth legend in the middle of the inmense Soviet landscape and besides to inmerse in the Russian mood with all its charm and horror , watch this jewel film .
A glorious masterpiece .

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