Another is an incredibly twisted family saga (with social inequality), and of course, a beautiful love story. One is its gypsy theme, which is so close to the Russian soul and which was already romanticized in the film Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue. Film critics have put out different theories as to why this movie became such a hit with Soviet viewers.
This film tells the story of a gypsy woman who turns out to have in fact been born to a noble family. Furthermore, its viewership figures were truly jaw-dropping: in 1975, when the Mexican romance Yesenia hit Soviet screens, it was watched by a staggering 91.4 million people! It surpassed even the highest-grossing Soviet films: the Oscar-winning Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears and the Soviet box-office hit, the action movie Pirates of the 20th Century. This is, perhaps, the most unexpected movie to top the Soviet box office. Crevenna / Películas Latinoamericanas S.A. Incidentally, the director Stanley Kubrick said that while working on the film he had drawn inspiration from Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. It was very rare for a Hollywood film to reach Soviet screens at all, but in this case an exception was made since the movie was about the class struggle of oppressed slaves. screens, only in 1967, and was watched by 63 million people.
The American history drama Spartacus was released in the USSR seven years after it first hit U.S.
Furthermore, a popular Moscow football club and a sports society borrowed their name, Spartak, from that hero too. In 1956, Aram Khachaturian's ballet Spartacus, based on Giovagnoli's book, premiered at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater (now known as the Mariinsky Theatre) with great success. The eponymous novel by Raffaello Giovagnoli enjoyed huge print runs in the USSR. The gladiator Spartacus, a leader of a slave uprising, was one of Soviet people's most favorite characters.
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