Synopsis
Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta (1982) is a Soviet rock-opera film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Vladimir Grammatikov brought Alexei Rybnikov's 1976 score to the screen — sharp, electric, built on rock rhythms rather than the orchestral templates of mainstream Soviet cinema — set to Pavel Grushko's verse about a poor Chilean heading to the California goldfields.
Joaquin Murrieta (Andrei Kharitonov) arrives with his compatriots, finds love, starts a life. Then the violence of mid-19th-century California catches up with him: Mexican and Latin American miners were driven off their claims with no legal recourse. After his wife dies, Murrieta takes up arms. Aleksandr Filippenko, Alena Belyak and Eduard Martsevich also star. Built on song rather than dialogue, it plays like a ballad pressed too hard until it breaks. Watch Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta (1982) online on iFILM.
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