Screening: Little Tragedies, 1979, by Mikhail Shveytser

Little Tragedies is a 1979 Soviet television miniseries by Mikhail Shyvester, based on works by Alexander Pushkin.

The three-part television film, dedicated to Pushkin’s 180th birthday and 150th anniversary of Boldino Autumn, concentrates artistic resources that are unprecedented even for the “golden age” of Soviet film. The film is starring the best Russian actors: Sergey Yursky, Grigory Taratorkin, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Nikolai Burlyaev, Natalia Belokhvostikova, Vladimir Vysotsky and others.

Note: This film is dedicated to one of the actors of the film, Sergey Yurksy, who has recently passed away.

Yursky, who started his career in the 1960s, played leading roles in more than 40 films as well as plays staged at the Mossovet Theater in Moscow, where he started acting in 1978. Yursky was also a renowned theatre director and wrote several books on theatre and cinema.