Shakespearean tragedy collides with film noir in a remote Russian village in this dark fable from celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (Danton, Ashes and Diamonds). Siberian Lady Macbeth observes the cruel machinations of Katarina, a ruthless woman (Olivera Markovic) who will let nothing threaten her affair with a mysterious drifter (Ljuba Tadic). When her father-in-saw (Bojan Stupica) discovers the indiscretion, she dispatches him with a dose of rat poison. But soon others, including her husband, sister-in-law and young nephew, develop suspicions of their own\u2026and test the limits to which Katarina\u2019s lethal passion will carry her. The film\u2019s barbaric black-and-white by Aleksander Sekulovic) emphasizes the primordial desires that propel its heroine toward destruction, while Wajda\u2019s carefully composed images (backed by a score drawn from the works of Shostakovich) endow the film with a visual impact and formal grace that make Siberian Lady Macbeth an unsung classic of Eastern European Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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