The Great Glinka

1946 film

  • September 1946 (1946-09)
Running time
116 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

The Great Glinka (Russian: Глинка) is a 1946 Soviet biopic film directed by Lev Arnshtam. The film is about Mikhail Glinka, a Russian composer of the 19th century. The film was awarded the Stalin Prize of II degree (1947) and it was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2]

Plot

Cast

  • Boris Chirkov as Mikhail Glinka
  • Valentina Serova as Maria Ivanova-Glinka
  • Klavdiya Polovikova as Luiza Ivanova
  • Vasili Merkuryev as Yakob Ulanov
  • Kira Golovko as Anna Kern
  • Mikhail Nazvanov as hussar Kostya
  • Boris Livanov as Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
  • Alexander Shatov as Alexander von Benckendorff
  • Nikolay Svobodin as Baron Yegor Rosen
  • Pyotr Aleynikov as Alexander Pushkin
  • Mikhail Derzhavin as Vasily Zhukovsky
  • Mikhail Yanshin as Pyotr Vyazemsky
  • Victor Koltsov as Vladimir Odoevsky
  • Vladimir Druzhnikov as Kondraty Ryleyev
  • Vladimir Vladislavsky as Mikhail Vielgorsky
  • Maxim Mikhailov as Osip Petrov
  • Yevgeny Kaluzhsky as old dignitary
  • Georgy Vitsin as spectator at the premiere (uncredited)

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Glinka". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 394.

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Films directed by Lev Arnshtam
  • Girl Friends (1936)
  • Friends (1938)
  • Zoya (1944)
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  • Romeo and Juliet (1955)
  • A Lesson in History (1957)
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  • The Composer Glinka (1952 film)
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