The Queen of Spades (1960 film)

The Queen of Spades
Directed by	Roman Tikhomirov
Written by	Aleksandr Pushkin Roman Tikhomirov
Starring	Oleg Strizhenov
Cinematography	Yevgeni Shapiro
Music by	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Distributed by	Lenfilm
Release date	1960 (1960)
Running time	106 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is a 1960 film adaptation of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, based on the 1834 Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, and directed by Roman Tikhomirov.

The film, set in the 1820s, follows a man named Hermann, who has just returned from army service to Moscow. At the beginning of the film, he is in love with the beautiful young Liza - who is engaged to another - but soon he becomes fatally obsessed with learning the secret to a winning card combination from Liza's grandmother, the Countess.

The operatic singing was performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, and Yevgeny Kibkalo.

For this film Oleg Strizhenov received the Aleksandr Pushkin's Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of Irina Arkhipova "for the brilliant realization of the figure of Hermann in the film Queen of Spades".

Cast

• Hermann - Oleg Strizhenov
• Lisa - Olga Krasina
• Countess - Yelena Polevitskaya
• Count Tomsky - Vadim Medvedev
• Yeletsky - Valentin Kulik

External links

• The Queen of Spades at IMDb
• The Queen of Spades at AllMovie

See also

• The Queen of Spades (opera)
• The Queen of Spades (1916 film)
• The Queen of Spades (1970 film)
• The Queen of Spades (1982 film)