Little Tragedies (1979 film)

Little Tragedies
Directed by	Mikhail Shveytser
Written by	Mikhail Shveytser Alexander Pushkin
Starring	Matluba Alimova Natalya Belokhvostikova Nikolay Burlyaev
Music by	Alfred Schnittke
Cinematography	Mikhail Agranovich
Production company	Mosfilm
Release dates	1979
Running time	240 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Little Tragedies (Russian: Маленькие трагедии) is a 1979 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Shveytser, based on works by Alexander Pushkin. Dedicated to Pushkin's 180th birthday and 150th anniversary of Boldino Autumn.

Pushkin's works used

• Scene from Faust
• Little Tragedies
  • Mozart And Salieri
  • The Covetous Knight
  • The Stone Guest
  • A Feast in Time of Plague
• Egyptian Nights
• Гости съезжались на дачу…
• На углу маленькой площади…
• Мы проводили вечер на даче…
• Жил на свете рыцарь бедный…

Cast

• Matluba Alimova as Laura
• Natalya Belokhvostikova as Donna Anna
• Nikolay Burlyaev as Alber, young Baron
• Natalya Danilova as Princess Volskaya
• Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Ekaterina Pavlovna
• Inna Gulaya as Queen of the Night
• Ivars Kalniņš as Faust and Don Carlos
• Leonid Kayurov as Alexey Ivanovich
• Nikolai Kochegarov as Mephistopheles
• Mikhail Kokshenov as Ivan, servant
• Leonid Kuravlyov as Leporello, servant of Don Juan
• Ivan Lapikov as Priest
• Avangard Leontiev as Solomon
• Grigori Malikov (episode)
• Radner Muratov (episode)
• Svetlana Pereladova as Mary
• Filipp Smoktunovsky as Duke
• Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Salieri and Old Baron
• Georgi Taratorkin as Charsky
• Aleksandr Trofimov as Chairman
• Larisa Udovichenko as Alber's fiance and Louise
• Vladimir Vysotsky as Don Juan
• Sergei Yursky as Improvisator
• Valeri Zolotukhin as Mozart

External links

• Little Tragedies at the Internet Movie Database