Year: 1990
Runtime: 221 mins
Language: Russian
Director: Humphrey Burton
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1990 Kirov Opera production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov stars Robert Lloyd as Boris. Boris seizes the throne by murdering heir Dmitry. Monk Pimen, who witnessed it, urges his apprentice Grigory to avenge Dmitry; Grigory pretends to be the prince and raises an army. Filmed during the Soviet collapse, staging marks a moment.
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