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"СYNTHIA"


Based on poems by Elena Shvarts

Directed by Yuri Tomoshevsky

Cinematography - Alexander Ustinov

Original Music Score - Andre Siegle







Principal Roles/Actors:

Cynthia - Elena George
The Poet - Yuri Tomoshevsky
Servant - Zinaida Sharko
Philosopher - Ivan Makeev

In other roles: 

Gennadii Lojkin
Oleg Melnik
Alexei Falileev
Dima Baskin




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Cynthia was a Roman poet living in the 1st century B.C. The heroine of the elegies of Propertius, she was famous not only for her talent, but also for her bad temper. None of her poems survived, but I tried to translate them into Russian anyway.

                                                                     Elena Shvarts

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