The Great Glinka

The Great Glinka (Глинка)
Film poster
Directed by	Lev Arnshtam
Written by	Lev Arnshtam
Starring	Boris Chirkov Vasili Merkuryev Mikhail Derzhavin Vladimir Druzhnikov Katya Ivanova Valentina Serova
Music by	Vissarion Shebalin
Cinematography	Yu-Lan Chen Aleksandr Shelenkov
Edited by	Tatyana Likhachyova
Release date	September 1946 (1946-09)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Great Glinka (Russian: Глинка, translit. 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 (1947) and it was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.^[1][2]

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 empreror 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
• Evgeny Kaluzhsky as old dignitary
• Georgy Vitsin as spectator at the premiere (uncredited)
• Yevgeny Gurov as dignitary (uncredited)
• Konstantin Bartashevich as hussar, beloved Maria Petrovna (uncredited)
• Aleksandr Sobolev as Glinka as a Child
• Lev Snezhnitsky as Ivan Glinka

References

External links

• The Great Glinka on IMDb