The Great Glinka
| The Great Glinka (Глинка) | |
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 Film poster
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| Directed by | Lev Arnshtam |
| Written by | Lev Arnshtam |
| Starring |
Boris Chirkov Vasili Merkuryev Mikhail Derzhavin Vladimir Druzhnikov Katya Ivanova Valentina Serova |
| Cinematography | Yu-Lan Chen Aleksandr Shelenkov |
| Edited by | Tatyana Likhachyova |
| Music by | Vissarion Shebalin |
Release date |
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Running time |
116 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
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.
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)