The Queen of Spades (1982 film)

The Queen of Spades
Directed by	Igor Maslennikov
Written by	Aleksandr Pushkin Alexander Shlepyanov
Starring	Viktor Proskurin Alla Demidova Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Music by	Dmytro Bortniansky
Cinematography	Lenfilm
Release date(s)	1982
Running time	92 min.
Language	Russian
IMDb profile

The Queen of Spades (Russian: Пиковая дама) is a 1982 film adaptation of the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.

Film is verbatim (including epigraphs) screening of Pushkin's story.

[edit] Cast

Igor Maslennikov said about the film:

"Queen of Spades" came out in me absolutely by such as I wanted her to see - not only as the motion picture director, but as men with the classical philological education. We brought to the consciousness of a spectator the authentic, true text of this piece of Pushkin, and indeed many receive "Queen of Spades" using the material of Tchaikovsky's opera. There is even guide on Petersburg, in which under the photograph of winter groove stands the signature: "the winter groove, in which was drowned Pushkin's Liza". Here immediately several errors. It suffices to say that anywhere Pushkin does not have any Liza, but Lizaveta Ivanovna, who safely marry... And here these myths we attempted to destroy....
... most important myth - about Hermann, who by Pushkin not was neither demonic nor romantic hero. This is such kind of nemchik, which in Petersburg there was much - 30% of population. Pushkin irritated all of them, to Hermann he gave the pejorative characteristic: no one of the officers perceived nonsense about the three cards, the very same to this believed; passing by the house of the countess, he saw her niece and began to letter her. But not his own, but he copied pages from the German novels.

This 1980s drama film-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.