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 (1947) 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 (uncredited) References