The Great Glinka

The Great Glinka (Russian: Глинка, 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.

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