Rimsky-Korsakov
About Rimsky-Korsakov
Grigori Belov plays Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov across the composer's last two decades, lecturing, fighting theater bureaucrats, and clashing with patron Savva Mamontov, played by Aleksandr Borisov. A figure called Ramensky, based on Stravinsky, is attacked for music called anti-popular, and the story reaches the 1905 revolution between scenes from Sadko, The Snow Maiden, Tsar Saltan, Kashchey, and The Golden Cockerel. Gennady Kazansky and Grigori Roshal directed.
Cast & crew
More about Rimsky-Korsakov
Wikipedia calls it a 1953 Sovcolor film, and Wikidata dates the release August 24, 1953, at 114 minutes, while the catalog year kept here is 1952. Nikolai Cherkasov plays Stasov. Moisey Magid and Lev Sokolsky photographed it, Georgy Sviridov composed the score, and the Commons file is labeled 1953.
Themes
Background
The biographical line ends in the 1905–1907 revolution and is broken up by opera stagings.
Look
Moisey Magid and Lev Sokolsky photographed the Sovcolor biopic.
Technique
The English Wikipedia says the film was shot in Sovcolor.
Music
Georgy Sviridov composed the score, alongside excerpts staged from Rimsky-Korsakov's own operas.
Notes
- Liliya Gritsenko plays Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel.
- Viktor Khokhryakov plays Alexander Glazunov and Anatoliy Kuznetsov plays Anatoly Lyadov.
- Aleksandr Ognivtsev plays Feodor Chaliapin.
- Lidiya Sukharevskaya plays Rimskaya-Korsakova.
Scenes
- Debates over Ramensky's music, a stand-in for Stravinsky, sit next to scenes from The Golden Cockerel and Sadko.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Римский Корсаков (1953).webm)
