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The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

2012 · 187 min

A long, solemn, slowly unfolding mystical spectacle that asks patience and rewards it with a steady swell of choral grandeur.

Overview
Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far between; this realisation of his penultimate and grandest stage work is a very rare and special experience. Kitezh is known as "the Russian Parsifal", which encapsulates its mystical flavour and steady unfolding of a legend of redemption

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • faith
    • redemption
    • love
    • war
    • death
    Places
    None
    Era
    timeless
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • musical
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
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    Action2
    Horror1
    Humour0
    Realism3
    Romance4
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity8
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    music
    Directed by
    Dmitri Tcherniakov, Misjel Vermeiren
    Written by
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Starring
    Vladimir Vaneev, Maxim Aksenov, Svetlana Ignatovich, John Daszak, Alexey Markov, Mayram Sokolova, Morschi Franz, Gennady Bezzubenkov
    Music
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    Runtime
    187 min
    Country
    Netherlands
    Languages
    Russian

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