The Great Glinka
The Great Glinka 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 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