Hypothetically Murdered

Hypothetically Murdered (2015) is a music film.

In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up. The show was naturally a momentary scandal and the score soon disappeared. In 1991 Gerard McBurney reconstructed from the surviving sketches a sequence of 21 of the orchestral numbers to make a hilarious sequence of gallops, saucy polkas, marches and schmoozy waltzes.

Cast

Natalia de Froberville

Mashenka Kurochkin

Artyom Mishakov

Stopka Kurochkin

Sergei Mershin

Beyburzhuyev

German Starikov

Angel

Anna Pushvintseva-Poistogova

Showy Lady

Eugenia Chetverikova

Dancing Couple

Denis Tolmazov

Dancing Couple

Lyaisan Gisatullina

Barmaid

Alexey Budrin

Accordion Player