The Sisters (1957 film)

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The Sisters
Poster
Directed byGrigori Roshal
Written byBoris Chirskov
Based onSisters
by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
StarringRufina Nifontova
Nina Veselovskaya
Vadim Medvedev
Nikolai Gritsenko
Viktor Sharlakhov
Vladimir Muravyov
CinematographyLeonid Kosmatov
Edited byYeva Ladyzhenskaya
Music byDmitry Kabalevsky
Production
company
Distributed byArtkino Pictures
Release date
24 September 1957
Running time
98 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Sisters (Russian: Сёстры, romanized: Syostry) is a 1957[1] Soviet epic film directed by Grigori Roshal.[2] It based on Sisters (1918–1922), the first part of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's The Road to Calvary trilogy.[3][4][5]

Production[edit]

The Sisters was filmed in St. Petersburg, including in the Summer Garden.[6] Music was composed by Dmitry Kabalevsky.[7]

Plot[edit]

The Russian Empire during the First World War; two sisters in Petrograd pursue romance in the runup to the Russian Revolution.[8][9]

Release[edit]

The Sisters was released in the Soviet Union on 24 September 1957, and in the West in 1959.[10]

It was the highest-grossing film in the Soviet Union for 1957, with 42.5 million tickets sold.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Soviet Film". January 11, 1974 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Rollins, Peter C.; O'Connor, John E. (January 11, 1997). Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ISBN 9780879727550 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (January 11, 1973). "Great Soviet Encyclopedia". Macmillan – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Bundesarchiv — Recherche — Detailansicht — Der Leidensweg Teil I — Die Schwestern (1957)".
  5. ^ "The International Encyclopedia of Film". January 11, 1972 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Раскина, Ирина. "5. Кадр из фильма «Сёстры» (1957)".
  7. ^ Craggs, Stewart R. (May 3, 2019). Soundtracks: International Dictionary of Composers of Music for Film. Routledge. ISBN 9780429777431 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "The Sisters (1957)" – via letterboxd.com.
  9. ^ "Сестры 1957 смотреть онлайн ретро фильм в хорошем качестве". retrogid.ru.
  10. ^ Christie, Ian; Taylor, Professor Richard; Taylor, Richard (October 12, 2012). The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge. ISBN 9781135082512 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Kudryavtsev, Sergey (4 July 2006). "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате" [Domestic Films in Soviet Film Distribution]. LiveJournal (in Russian). Retrieved 4 February 2019.

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