Man of Music (1952)
1h 45m
Running Time
June 6, 1952Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Boris Smirnov
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Lev Durasov
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Volodymyr Saveliev
Marshal Karl Ivanovich
Lyubov Orlova
Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Yuri Lyubimov
Alexander Dargomishky
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
N. Korshunov
Ivanov, tenor
Pyotr Pavlenko
Writer
Sergei Kurilov
Karl Brullov
Mikhail Nazvanov
Czar Nikolai I
N. Treneva
Writer
Konstantin Nasonov
Gen. Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Vissarion Shebalin
Composer
Berta Vinogradova
Giuditta Pasta
Eduard Tisse
Cinematographer
Svyatoslav Richter
Franz Liszt
Georgiy Vitsin
Nikolai V. Gogol
Irina Likso
The Czarina
I. Litovkin
A. S. Griboyedov
Faina Shevchenko
Mme. Ivanovich
Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
Dmitri Petrov
E. Glebova
Singer
Valentina Kuznetsova
Assistant Director
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Engineer
Olga Kruchinina
Costume Design
Vera Rudina
Makeup Artist
V. Maslov
Production Director
P. Armand
Producer
Aleksandr Utkin
Art Direction
Yevgeni Mravinsky
Music Director
V. Tumanov
Pavel Pavlenko
Details.
Release DateJune 6, 1952
Original NameКомпозитор Глинка
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 45m
Genres
Wiki.
Kompozitor Glinka (Russian: Композитор Глинка; English literal translation, Composer Glinka; American release title Man of Music) is a 1952 Soviet biographical film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov.