Man of Music (1952)

ALL 06/06/1952 (ru) History, Music 105 Min
  • Release
    06/06/1952
  • Production
    Mosfilm
  • Rotten tomato
    43%
  • Original title
    Композитор Глинка
  • Original language
    ru
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Story

  2. Editor

  3. P. Armand

    Producer



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  1. Boris Smirnov

    Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

  2. Lev Durasov

    Alexander Pushkin

  3. Volodymyr Saveliev

    Marshal Karl Ivanovich

  4. Lyubov Orlova

    Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka

  5. Yuri Lyubimov

    Alexander Dargomishky

  6. N. Korshunov

    Ivanov, tenor

  7. Sergei Kurilov

    Karl Brullov

  8. Mikhail Nazvanov

    Czar Nikolai I

  9. Konstantin Nasonov

    Gen. Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky

  10. Berta Vinogradova

    Giuditta Pasta

  11. Svyatoslav Richter

    Franz Liszt

  12. Georgiy Vitsin

    Nikolai V. Gogol

  13. Irina Likso

    The Czarina

  14. I. Litovkin

    A. S. Griboyedov

  15. Faina Shevchenko

    Mme. Ivanovich

  16. Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky

    Dmitri Petrov

  17. E. Glebova

    Singer

  18. Andrei Popov

  19. Pavel Pavlenko

  20. V. Tumanov

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 20 , Crews : 13

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Man of Music (1952) 105 Min

ALL 06/06/1952 (ru)
History, Music
  • Release 06/06/1952
  • Production
    Mosfilm
  • Original title Композитор Глинка
  • ru
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Grigori Aleksandrov

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. P. Armand

    Producer