Man of Music

Man of Music

1952
1h 45m
4.3

4.3/10

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Overview

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Mosfilm
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Russian

Keywords

composer biography

Quick Facts

Original Title Композитор Глинка
Release Date June 6, 1952
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0044804

Cast

Boris Smirnov
Boris Smirnov

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Lev Durasov
Lev Durasov

Alexander Pushkin

Vladimir Savelyev
Vladimir Savelyev

Marshal Karl Ivanovich

Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Orlova

Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka

Yuri Lyubimov
Yuri Lyubimov

Alexander Dargomishky

Nikolay Korshunov
Nikolay Korshunov

Ivanov, tenor

Sergei Kurilov
Sergei Kurilov

Karl Brullov

Mikhail Nazvanov
Mikhail Nazvanov

Czar Nikolai I

Konstantin Nassonov
Konstantin Nassonov

Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Berta Vinogradova
Berta Vinogradova

Giuditta Pasta

Sviatoslav Richter
Sviatoslav Richter

Franz Liszt

Georgiy Vitsin
Georgiy Vitsin

Nikolai V. Gogol

Key Crew

Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Pyotr Pavlenko
Screenplay
Natalya Trenyova
Screenplay
Grigori Aleksandrov
Screenplay
Valentin Maslov
Executive Producer