Mnogo Shuma Iz Nichego (1973) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Ronan Paterson (University of Teesside)

Ed. by Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Domains

Cinema/ Film/ TV

Dates

Date of occurrence 1973

Places

Russia (Location)
England (Involved)

Genres and Modes

Adaptation

Adapted from Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Samson Samsonov. Starring Galina Jovovich (as Galina Loginova), Konstantin Rajkin, Tatyana Vedeneeva, Leonid Trushkin, and Pavel Pavlenko. Original length 83 mins. Available version 76 mins. Colour. Language: Russian

Samsonov’s film was the second of three Soviet film versions of Shakespeare’s play, the others being a 1956 adaptation, under the same title, and a 1983 musical version, Lyubovyu za Lyubov. Samsonov was an experienced director, having already made nine feature films for the Mosfilm studio. The film is shot in the 70mm Sovscop wide-screen format, which enabled Evginey Guslinsky’s cinematography to fill the frames with a w…

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Citation: Paterson, Ronan. "Mnogo Shuma Iz Nichego (1973) - film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 September 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19421, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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