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Man of Music
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Man of Music

1952-06-06 · 105 min · ★ 4.7

History · Music

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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Directors
Grigori Aleksandrov
Production companies
Mosfilm
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Boris SmirnovBoris SmirnovMikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Lev DurasovLev DurasovAlexander Pushkin
Vladimir SavelyevVladimir SavelyevMarshal Karl Ivanovich
Lyubov OrlovaLyubov OrlovaLudmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Yuri LyubimovYuri LyubimovAlexander Dargomishky
Nikolay KorshunovIvanov, tenor
Sergei KurilovSergei KurilovKarl Brullov
Mikhail NazvanovMikhail NazvanovCzar Nikolai I
Konstantin NassonovVasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Berta VinogradovaBerta VinogradovaGiuditta Pasta
Sviatoslav RichterFranz Liszt
Georgiy VitsinGeorgiy VitsinNikolai V. Gogol
Irina LiksoIrina LiksoThe Czarina
Igor LitovkinA. S. Griboyedov
Faina ShevchenkoFaina ShevchenkoMme. Ivanovich
Aleksandr Sashin-NikolskyAleksandr Sashin-NikolskyDmitri Petrov
Yelena GlebovaSinger
Andrei PopovAndrei Popov
Pavel PavlenkoPavel Pavlenko
Vakhtang TumanovVakhtang TumanovOsip Petrov

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