Movie Description
Композитор Глинка
(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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Grigori Aleksandrov
- Producer : P. Armand
- Cast : Boris Smirnov,Lev Durasov,Volodymyr Saveliev,Lyubov Orlova,Yuri Lyubimov,N. Korshunov,Sergei Kurilov,Mikhail Nazvanov,Konstantin Nasonov,Berta Vinogradova,Sviatoslav Richter,Georgiy Vitsin,Irina Likso,I. Litovkin,Faina Shevchenko,Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky,E. Glebova,Andrei Popov,Pavel Pavlenko,V. Tumanov
Cast
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Alexander Pushkin
Marshal Karl Ivanovich
Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Alexander Dargomishky
Ivanov, tenor
Karl Brullov
Czar Nikolai I
Gen. Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Giuditta Pasta
Franz Liszt
Nikolai V. Gogol
The Czarina
A. S. Griboyedov
Mme. Ivanovich
Dmitri Petrov
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Facts
Original TitleКомпозитор Глинка
Status Released
Release Information
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1952-06-06
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 45m
Production CompaniesMosfilm
Genres
- History
- Music