Man of Music
movie
Released June 06, 1952
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.
Cast
Boris Smirnov
as
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Lev Durasov
as
Alexander Pushkin
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Volodymyr Saveliev
as
Marshal Karl Ivanovich
Lyubov Orlova
as
Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Yuri Lyubimov
as
Alexander Dargomishky
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N. Korshunov
as
Ivanov, tenor
Sergei Kurilov
as
Karl Brullov
Mikhail Nazvanov
as
Czar Nikolai I
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Konstantin Nasonov
as
Gen. Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Berta Vinogradova
as
Giuditta Pasta
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Sviatoslav Richter
as
Franz Liszt
Georgiy Vitsin
as
Nikolai V. Gogol
Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
as
Director
Olga Kruchinina
as
Costume Design
Pyotr Pavlenko
as
Screenplay
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Vera Rudina
as
Makeup Artist
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Natalya Trenyova
as
Screenplay
Grigori Aleksandrov
as
Screenplay
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Valentina Kuznetsova
as
Assistant Director
Eduard Tisse
as
Director of Photography
Pāvels Armands
as
Assistant Director
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Aleksei Utkin
as
Production Design
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Yevgeniy Mravinskiy
as
Conductor
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Vladimir Shcherbachov
as
Original Music Composer