Man of Music (Композитор Глинка) 72 years old

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.

Credits

Man of Music Cast

Name Character
Georgiy Vitsin He was 36, 84 years old when he died as Nikolai V. Gogol
Lyubov Orlova She was 50, 72 years old when she died as Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Mikhail Nazvanov He was 38, 50 years old when he died as Czar Nikolai I
Andrei Popov He was 36, 5 years old when he died
Boris Smirnov as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Pavel Pavlenko He was 49, 90 years old when he died

Man of Music Crew

Name Department
Eduard Tisse as Director of Photography. He was 56 (64) years old when He died Camera
Grigori Aleksandrov as Director. He was 50 (80) years old when He died Directing
Grigori Aleksandrov as Screenplay. He was 50 (80) years old when He died Writing
Man of Music poster
Man of Music (72 years)

  • Release day: Friday, June 06, 1952
  • Runtime: 105 minutes