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]
| The Great Glinka (Глинка) | |
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 Film poster | |
| 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 |
Plot edit
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Cast edit
- 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 edit
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Glinka". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 394.
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