Nikolai Leskov

Nikolai Leskov

Nacimiento : 1831-02-16, Gorokhovo, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Muerte : 1895-03-05

Historia

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831–1895) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865) (which was later made into an opera by Shostakovich), The Cathedral Clergy (1872), The Enchanted Wanderer (1873), and "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (1881).

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Nikolai Leskov

Películas

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Original Story
Of Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean parallel is here bitterly ironic: unlike Lady Macbeth, Katerina Ismaïlova who, in the remote reaches of rural 19th century Russia, falls in love with one of her husband’s employees and is finally forced to commit suicide, is less a manipulator than a victim of a violent and patriarchal society. Krzysztof Warlikowski liberates all the subversive power of this scorching and scandalous work, which marked the early years of the Opéra Bastille.
Lady Macbeth
Novel
La Inglaterra rural de 1865. Katherine (Florence Pugh) vive angustiada por culpa de su matrimonio con un hombre amargado al que no quiere y que le dobla la edad, y de su fría y despiadada familia. Cuando se embarca en un apasionado idilio con un joven trabajador de la finca de su marido, en su interior se desata una fuerza tan poderosa que nada le impedirá intentar conseguir lo que desea.
Chostakovitch: Lady Macbeth de Mzensk
Original Story
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a powerful work of raw emotional intensity. With themes of adultery and murder, the story follows the downfall of a bored provincial merchant’s wife who seeks solace and excitement in an extra-marital affair. With a bold and contemporary setting, the staging provides the perfect backdrop to this 20th-century opera’s unflinching approach to sex and violence.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Original Story
A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Book
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs to free herself from this yoke. When Sergei starts work on the family estate, she sees in him a chance for salvation. However, their subsequent affair marks the beginning of a descent into crime.
Gospodi, uslysh molitvu moyu
Writer
In the story of Konstantin Vorobyov "killed near Moscow." The film is subtitled in the name of the protagonist about the defense of Moscow in 2941. On the advanced detachment of the Kremlin the cadets arrive. This, the newest guys have not smelled gunpowder. Armed with 240 SVT; students, grenades and Molotov cocktails. Orders, just two: "At any cost!" and "Not one step back!". They are waiting for the heavy, physical and mental, test. Will the young men to stand up and fight back to the enemy..?
The Charming Traveller
Novel
The Left-Hander
Screenplay
Tsar Alexander I acquires a mechanical flea to add to his collection of curiosities.
Amazon
Original Story
The city philistine Domna Platonovna-a merchant of lace, and sometimes... and "live goods" - is engaged in pimping. Fate confronts her with a young intelligent woman-a noblewoman, a colonel, Lekanida Petrovna, whose difficult life trials led to a moral decline. Domna Platonovna tells her tragic story with imperturbable calmness, presenting her own unseemly actions that push the unfortunate woman as the greatest benefits rendered to her.
Drama from the Old Life
Short Story
A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist".
Katerina Izmailova
Book
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994. Dmitri Shostakovich also wrote the screenplay for the screen version of Katerina Izmailova.
Очарованный странник
Original Story
Siberian Lady Macbeth
Writer
A ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.
Tragödie einer Leidenschaft
Novel
When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as tenants. And no sooner did Liuba's mother die than she wanted to send her niece to the orphanage. Fortunately, Pawlin, Anna Iwanowna's janitor, decided to adopt her and he brought her up with affection. When she grew up, the beautiful Liuba fell in love with her aunt's son, Dodja, a good-looking but profligate army officer. Wishing nothing more than an affair with Liuba, Dodja did not hesitate to play the comedy of love to her. When she realized what Dodja was really after, Liuba was devastated and in desperation accepted to marry Pawlin, her benefactor, who had been infatuated with her for years. Alas, in the middle of the wedding party Dodja danced with Liuba and eloped with her
Pobeda zhenshchiny
Novel