Man of Music

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.

Main Cast

Boris Smirnov

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Lev Durasov

Alexander Pushkin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Vladimir Saveliev

Marshal Karl Ivanovich

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Lyubov Orlova

Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Yuri Lyubimov

Alexander Dargomishky

Age : 97 | Popularity : 3%

N. Korshunov

Ivanov, tenor

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sergei Kurilov

Karl Brullov

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Mikhail Nazvanov

Czar Nikolai I

Age : 50 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Grigori Aleksandrov Pyotr Pavlenko N. Treneva
Directing	Director	Grigori Aleksandrov
	Assistant Director	Valentina Kuznetsova
Camera	Director of Photography	Eduard Tisse
Sound	Sound Engineer	Yevgeni Kashkevich
	Music Director	Yevgeni Mravinsky
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Olga Kruchinina
	Makeup Artist	Vera Rudina
Production	Production Director	V. Maslov
	Producer	P. Armand
Art	Art Direction	Aleksandr Utkin
Department	Role	Name

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