Man of Music

Man of Music (1952)

HistoryMusic

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.

Director: Grigori Aleksandrov
Writers: Grigori Aleksandrov, Pyotr Pavlenko, Natalya Trenyova.

Casts

	Boris Smirnov as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
	Lev Durasov as Alexander Pushkin
	Vladimir Savelyev as Marshal Karl Ivanovich
	Lyubov Orlova as Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
	Yuri Lyubimov as Alexander Dargomishky
	Nikolay Korshunov as Ivanov, tenor
	Sergei Kurilov as Karl Brullov
	Mikhail Nazvanov as Czar Nikolai I
	Konstantin Nassonov as Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
	Berta Vinogradova as Giuditta Pasta
	Sviatoslav Richter as Franz Liszt
	Georgiy Vitsin as Nikolai V. Gogol
	Irina Likso as The Czarina
	Igor Litovkin as A. S. Griboyedov
	Faina Shevchenko as Mme. Ivanovich
	Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky as Dmitri Petrov
	Yelena Glebova as Singer
	Andrei Popov as
	Pavel Pavlenko as
	Vakhtang Tumanov as Osip Petrov
	Sergei Vecheslov as Vladimir Odoevskiy
	Pyotr Veremenko as
	Yelena Izmailova as Olga Lanskaya
	Lyudmila Sokolova as Natalie Goncharova

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