The Queen of Spades (1960 film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Queen of Spades


imdb_id = 0054183
director = Roman Tikhomirov
writer = Aleksandr Pushkin
Roman Tikhomirov
starring = Oleg Strizhenov
producer =
music = Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
cinematography = Lenfilm
distributor =
released = 1960
runtime = 106 min.
language = Russian

"The Queen of Spades" ( _ru. Пиковая дама) is a 1960 film adaptation of the opera "The Queen of Spades", based on the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.

The operatic parts were performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, Yevgeny Kibkalo.

For this film Oleg Strizhenov received the Aleksandr Pushkin's Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of Irina Arkhipova "for the brilliant realization of the figure of Hermann in the film "Queen of Spades".

Cast

* Hermann - Oleg Strizhenov
* Lisa - Olga Krasina
* Countess - Yelena Polevitskaya
* Count Tomsky - Vadim Medvedev
* Yeletsky - Valentin Kulik

ee also

* The Queen of Spades (opera)
* The Queen of Spades (1916 film)
* The Queen of Spades (1970 film)
* The Queen of Spades (1982 film)