title: The Queen of Spades (1960 film)
text: The Queen of Spades () is a 1960 film adaptation of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, based on the 1834 Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, and directed by Roman Tikhomirov.
  
  The film, set in the 1820s, follows a man named Hermann, who has just returned from army service to Moscow. At the beginning of the film, he is in love with the beautiful young Liza - who is engaged to another - but soon he becomes fatally obsessed with learning the secret to a winning card combination from Liza's grandmother, the Countess.
  
  The operatic parts were performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, and Yevgeny Kibkalo.
  
  For this film Oleg Strizhenov received the Aleksandr Pushkin's Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of Irina Arkhipova "for the brilliant realization of the figure of Hermann in the film Queen of Spades".
  
  Cast
   Hermann - Oleg Strizhenov
   Lisa - Olga Krasina
   Countess - Yelena Polevitskaya
   Count Tomsky - Vadim Medvedev
   Yeletsky - Valentin Kulik
  
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  See also
   The Queen of Spades (opera)
   The Queen of Spades (1916 film)
   The Queen of Spades (1970 film)
   The Queen of Spades (1982 film)
  
  1960 films
  1960 in the Soviet Union
  Soviet musical drama films
  Soviet opera films
  1960s Russian-language films
  Films based on The Queen of Spades
  Lenfilm films
  Films set in the 1820s
  Films about gambling
  1960s ghost films
  1960s musical drama films
  1960 drama films