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Filming Russia's sacred text.(Review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19990522
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Russians on June 6th will mark the bicentenary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin, their most famous poet. A highpoint of the celebrations will be the opening of a British film of ``Eugene Onegin''

FOR Russians, Alexander Pushkin's great verse novel ``Eugene Onegin'' is so sacred a text that even Tchaikovsky hesitated before embarking on an opera taken from the book. The composer had to overcome not only his fear of the critics--among them the great Turgenev, who had once said he would give both little fingers for one line of the poem and who was indeed scathing about the ...

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