Kompozitor Glinka

May 9 1953 N/A 1h 40m
Biography, Drama, Music

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.

Plot

Biographical film about the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka who lived in the 19th century.

Written by

Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Pyotr Pavlenko, N. Treneva

Directed by

Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Cast

Boris Smirnov, Lev Durasov, Vladimir Savelev

Crew

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Production Countries

Soviet Union

Production Companies

GOSKINO (Production Unit: Kinostudiya "Mosfilm")

Languages

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
92
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA