Man of Music
06/06/1952
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.
Movie Information
Boris Smirnov
as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Lev Durasov
as Alexander Pushkin
Volodymyr Saveliev
as Marshal Karl Ivanovich
Lyubov Orlova
as Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Yuri Lyubimov
as Alexander Dargomishky
N. Korshunov
as Ivanov, tenor
Sergei Kurilov
as Karl Brullov
Mikhail Nazvanov
as Czar Nikolai I
Konstantin Nasonov
as Gen. Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Berta Vinogradova
as Giuditta Pasta
Sviatoslav Richter
as Franz Liszt
Georgiy Vitsin
as Nikolai V. Gogol
Irina Likso
as The Czarina
I. Litovkin
as A. S. Griboyedov
Faina Shevchenko
as Mme. Ivanovich
Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
as Dmitri Petrov
E. Glebova
as Singer
Andrei Popov
as
Pavel Pavlenko
as
V. Tumanov
as
Sergei Vecheslov
as Vladimir Odoevskiy
