Queen of Spades

  • 120 min.
  • 2016
  • 20th Century Fox

About film

General information

  • Year
    2016
  • Country
    Russia
  • Genre
    thriller, drama
  • Film rating
    16+
  • Synopsis
    Sophia Meyer is an opera singer, and has wooed the world with her unmatched soprano and sublime beauty, becoming a living legend. But after a very successful career, she decides to have one last, crowning triumph. She returns to opera, where her rise to fame began when she starred in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades – and starts to gather resources that will allow her to stage a completely new version of the classical piece, outshining all the previous renditions. But great success demands great sacrifice, and Sophia is prepared to go to any lengths to win back her former glory…

Team

  • Director
    Pavel Lungin
  • Script
    Pavel Lungin, Valery Pecheikin, Stewen Walsh
  • Cameraman
    Levan Kapanadze
  • Producers
    Pavel Lungin, Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Evgeny Panfilov
  • Art director
    Pavel Parkhomenko, Ekaterina Dyminskaya, Evgenya Panfilova
  • Editor
    Carolina Machievska

Actor

  • Kseniya Rappoprt
    Kseniya Rappoprt ...Sofya Meyer
  • Ivan Yankovskyi
    Ivan Yankovskyi ...Andrew
  • Maria Kurdenevich
    Maria Kurdenevich ...Liza
  • Igor Mirkurbanov
    Igor Mirkurbanov ...Oleg
  • Vladimir Simonov
    Vladimir Simonov ...Seva

Movie facts

  • The film is based on the plot of the world-famous Opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky "the Queen of spades", written by the eponymous work of Alexander Pushkin.

Promo materials

  • Poster (eng) Poster (eng)
  • Poster (rus) Poster (rus)
  • Stills Stills

Partners

Cinema Fund
Мастерская Павла Лунгина
20th Century Fox
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