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SIBERIAN LADY MACBETH
Sibirska Ledi Magbet
Serbia/Poland, 1962
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Starring Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric
Approx. 98 mins. 35mm.
Made in Yugoslavia during a rare period of exile by Wajda, SIBERIAN LADY MACBETH is a tale of adultery and murder based on a Russian novella loosely inspired by the Shakespeare tragedy. “She was part woman, part volcano... lying, stealing, killing, to keep the man she loved,” blared the tag line of an original movie poster; the film was first released in America as FURY IS A WOMAN.
35mm print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive
Presented with support from The Ashes and Diamonds Fund for Eastern European Film and The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Olivera Markovic’s on-target performance gives the heroine dignity in spite of all her vanity and vices.”
– Deborah Young, Variety