Word: grigory
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressed Flowers. After Jane Marsh, the one American who created the greatest fascination and furor was California Pianist Misha Dichter, 20, who placed second to a remarkable young 17-year-old Soviet, Grigori Sokolov. The slight, baby-faced teen-ager played so brilliantly that the jury took the unprecedented step of awarding its compliments not only to him, but to his teacher, Professor L. I. Seligman of Leningrad...
Clear Skies, which took top honors for Russia at the 1961 Moscow Film Festival, will interest Westerners chiefly because it lets the light of day shine on some ideas new to the insular world of Soviet cinema. Director Grigori Chukhrai, who proved his talent with the sensitive, romanticized Ballad of a Soldier, tells a tale of illicit love-and tells it straight, without prudish apologies, against a background of post-World War II political tyranny. The off-screen villain of the piece is Joseph Stalin...
...when he decided to make singing his career, soon landed a spot with Sweden's Royal Opera, was invited to La Scala. In the course of singing about Europe and at the Met, he has picked up over 70 operatic roles, many of the non-Italian wing, including Grigori in Boris Godunov, Tamino in The Magic Flute - and most notably the title role in Gounod's Faust. His voice is not par ticularly large, but it is passionate, beau tifully placed, and as finely responsible to the shape of the music as any in opera...
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. The best Russian movie since World War II: Director Grigori Chukhrai's tender, sentimental, humorous, passionate, imaginative story of love without benefit of Lenin in a Russia without time for love...
What sparks of greatness Grigori does show come when he is spearing Germans from horseback in a battle attributed to the first World War, or else beating up a noble who has seduced one of his women. But killing Germans is more or less irrelevant to the movie's main themes--the rise of the peasants and the love life of Grigori--and the attack on the noble comes as a decidedly un-subtle conclusion to decidedly un-subtle presentation of the peasant-noble business. Perhaps the worst incident along this line was the first: the entrance of the party...