Galina Kalinina

En gardant son sang-froid face à une fausse alerte d’attaque nucléaire, un officier soviétique avait évité de justesse le déclenchement d’une troisième guerre mondiale, dans la nuit du 25 au 26 septembre 1983. Vingt-deux ans plus tard, le héros oublié était invité en grande pompe aux États-Unis, l’ancien pays "ennemi"...

Universally acknowledged as the greatest of all Russian operas, this is a faithful and often dazzling production of the standard Rimsky-Korsakov version taped live at the Bolshoi in 1978. As Boris, the renowned Yevgeni Neterenko is as justifiably identified with the role in his generation as Chaliapin, London and Kipness were in theirs. Nesterenko gives a remarkably vivid, human portrait of the tormented half-crazed Tsar, and is supported by a first rate ensemble in a richly designed and costumed production that represents opera at its grandest. Particularly outstanding are Vladislav Piavko as the Pretender, Valery Yaroslavtsev as Pimen, Irina Arkhipova as Marina (a role generally associated with Vishnevskaya), Galina Kalinina as Xenia, and Alexsei Maslennikov as the Simpleton.

Filmed version of 1982 production of Tshaikovsky's opera.

“Bloodrop” is an experimental short directed by Aleksei Popogrebsky. Originally part of the Experiment 5ive omnibus, hence the black envelope with the picture inside, which had to be the common element of all 5 films.