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Man of Music

Man of Music

Jun 06, 1952 1h 45m
4.3
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Synopsis

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.

Title Man of Music
Companies Mosfilm
Countries Soviet Union
Keywords composer, biography
Boris Smirnov

Boris Smirnov

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Lev Durasov

Lev Durasov

Alexander Pushkin
Volodymyr Saveliev

Volodymyr Saveliev

Marshal Karl Ivanovich
Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova

Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Yuri Lyubimov

Yuri Lyubimov

Alexander Dargomishky
N. Korshunov

N. Korshunov

Ivanov, tenor
Sergei Kurilov

Sergei Kurilov

Karl Brullov
Mikhail Nazvanov

Mikhail Nazvanov

Czar Nikolai I
Konstantin Nasonov

Konstantin Nasonov

Gen. Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Berta Vinogradova

Berta Vinogradova

Giuditta Pasta
Georgiy Vitsin

Georgiy Vitsin

Nikolai V. Gogol
Irina Likso

Irina Likso

The Czarina
I. Litovkin

I. Litovkin

A. S. Griboyedov
Faina Shevchenko

Faina Shevchenko

Mme. Ivanovich