The Queen of Spades is a 1960 film adaptation

Film adaptation

Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work.A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction , autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays, and even...

 of the opera The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades (opera)

The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 is an opera in 3 acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. The premiere took place in 1890 in St...

, based on the Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....

 short story of the same name

The Queen of Spades (story)

"The Queen of Spades" is a short story by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in March 1834...

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The operatic parts were performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, Yevgeny Kibkalo

Yevgeny Kibkalo

Yevgeny Gavrilovich Kibkalo was a Ukrainian baritone and National Artist of the Soviet Union....

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For this film Oleg Strizhenov

Oleg Strizhenov

Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov was a Soviet and Russian film actor and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union.-Filmography:...

 received the Aleksandr Pushkin's Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of Irina Arkhipova "for the brilliant realization of the figure of Hermann in the film Queen of Spades".

Cast

• Hermann - Oleg Strizhenov
  Oleg Strizhenov
  Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov was a Soviet and Russian film actor and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Lisa - Olga Krasina
• Countess - Yelena Polevitskaya
• Count Tomsky - Vadim Medvedev
• Yeletsky - Valentin Kulik

See also

• The Queen of Spades (opera)
  The Queen of Spades (opera)
  The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 is an opera in 3 acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. The premiere took place in 1890 in St...
  
  
• The Queen of Spades (1916 film)
  The Queen of Spades (1916 film)
  The Queen of Spades is a 1916 film adaptation of the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, noted for high producer and operator culture, with the psychological depth of actor's game, first of all of Ivan Mozzhukhin...
  
  
• The Queen of Spades (1970 film)
• The Queen of Spades (1982 film)
  The Queen of Spades (1982 film)
  The Queen of Spades is a 1982 film adaptation of the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.Film is verbatim screening of Pushkin's story.-Cast:* Narrator - Alla Demidova* Hermann - Viktor Proskurin...