It Was Behind the Narva Outpost

The Gypsy Baron

Eliza Doolittle

A musical TV play based on the musical "My Fair Lady" by A.J. Lerner with music by F.Lowe, based on Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion". The ballet master of the TV play is Kirill Laskari.

The Treasurer's Wife

This television opera is based on Boris Asafiev's work "The Treasurer's Wife," which, in turn, is an opera adaptation of M.Y. Lermontov's poem "The Tambov Treasurer's Wife." The action takes place in the early 19th century in the provincial town of Tambov. The quiet, measured life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a cavalry regiment. The old treasurer throws a ball, where he loses his entire fortune and his beautiful wife to the young cavalryman Garin in a card game.

The Tale of the Lackey Nikishka

A ballet film based on a folk legend about a lackey who tried to fly with homemade wings.

Rigoletto

Soviet television production of Verdi's opera Rigoletto performed in Russian transition by the Dmitri Shostakovich Leningrad Philharmonic and Kirov (Mariinsky) Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Three Lemons For Loved One

Based on a story by Nikolai Berezovsky, using fragments from O. Henry's short story "Peaches."