''The Queen of Spades'' (russian: «Пиковая дама», Pikovaya dama) is a 1960 film adaptation of

Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

's opera '' The Queen of Spades'', based on the 1834 Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, and directed by

Roman Tikhomirov Roman Irinarkhovich Tikhomirov (russian: Роман Иринархович Тихомиров) (1915-1984) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. In 1973, he was awarded the title of People’s Artist of the RSFSR. Biography Roman Tikhomi ...

. 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 parts were performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, and

Yevgeny Kibkalo Yevgeny Gavrilovich Kibkalo (russian: Евгений Гаврилович Кибкало; 12 February 1932, Kyiv – 12 February 2003, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian operatic baritone singer and pedagogue. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1970). ...

. For this film

Oleg Strizhenov Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov (russian: Олег Александрович Стриженов; born 10 August 1929 in Blagoveshchensk) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1988). Life and career Strizhenov ...

received the Aleksandr Pushkin's Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of

Irina Arkhipova Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova (russian: Ири́на Константи́новна Архи́пова; 2 January 1925 11 February 2010, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano, and later contralto, opera singer. She sang leading roles fi ...

"for the brilliant realization of the figure of Hermann in the film ''Queen of Spades''".

Cast

* Hermann -

* Lisa - Olga Krasina * Countess - Yelena Polevitskaya * Count Tomsky -

Vadim Medvedev Vadim (Cyrillic: Вадим) is a Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovene masculine given name derived either from the Persian ''badian'' (anise or aniseed), or from the Ruthenian word ''volod'' (russian: волод), meaning ''to rule'' or ''vaditi ...

* Yeletsky - Valentin Kulik

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