Boris Godunov wrote incidental music for Pushkin's drama. In 1997, the score of a 1710 baroque opera based on the reign of Boris by German composer Johann Mattheson was rediscovered in Armenia and returned to Hamburg, Germany. This opera, never performed during the composer's lifetime, had its world premiere in 2005 at the Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition. Boris was portrayed on BBC Radio 4 by Shaun Dooley in the radio plays "Ivan the Terrible: Absolute Power" and "Boris Godunov: Ghosts" written by Mike Walker and which were the first two plays in the first series of "Tsar". The plays were
Boris Godunov (1986 film) Boris Godunov (1986 film) Boris Godunov () is a 1986 drama film directed by and starring Sergei Bondarchuk. It is an adaptation of the play "Boris Godunov", written by Alexander Pushkin. The picture was co-produced by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and West Germany. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. The action takes place in Russia and Poland as the 16th century ends and the 17th century begins. The reign of Boris Godunov is depicted, his son Feodor, and the coming to power of False Dmitry I. After the death of the feeble-minded Tsar Fedor Ivanovich, son