Film director Vladimir Gorikker: biography, career, and

Mozart and Salieri

Vladimir Gorikker

Pyotr Glebov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Salieri), based on a legend that Salieri poisoned Mozart, meditates on the nature of creativity while introducing, in brilliantly compressed speeches, what was to be one of the important Russian themes—metaphysical rebellion against God.

Mozart and Salieri

7.7 ⚠️ 1962

Россия, драма

Bells of Autumn

Vladimir Gorikker

Irina Alfyorova, Aleksandr Kirillov

A musical fairytale based on the poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess" by Alexander Pushkin.

Bells of Autumn

6.8 ⚠️ 1979

семейный

Под крышами Монмартра

Vladimir Gorikker

Lyudmila Kasatkina, Yevgeniya Simonova

A story of three struggling artists: a painter, a poet, and a composer, living in a bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. They help a poor flower girl, Violette, to find shelter, when she is thrown out by her landlord.

Under the Roofs of Montmartre

6.6 ⚠️ 1975

Россия, комедия

Sevil

Vladimir Gorikker

Valentina Aslanova, Hasan Mammadov

The film takes place in Baku in 1918-19 and then several years later. The film is based on the opera of the same name by Fikret Amirov. Sevil became the first film opera in the history of Azerbaijani cinema.

Sevil

6.5 ⚠️ 1970

Азербайджан, драма

Музыка Верди

Vladimir Gorikker

Nina Golovina, Viktor Khokhryakov

Телефильм по мотивам рассказов К. Паустовского «Музыка Верди» и «Доблесть».

Музыка Верди

5.0 ⚠️ 1961