Word: mzensk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adept as Chapayev, with an equally good performance by Boris Chirkov (last month made an "Honorary Artist of the Republic"), The Youth of Maxim also contains a musical score and sound arrangements contributed by U. S. S. R.'s brilliant young composer. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk). It begins a trilogy which will carry the biography of Maxim up to the present time. Best sound: "Varshayianka," sung by workers in jail to infuriate their guards...
...wriggling agony. A merchant was smothered with a bed pillow and his corpse dragged into a cellar. A prostitute let out a blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...