The Great Glinka
About The Great Glinka
Mikhail Glinka is followed from his early training and his travels in Europe through the writing of the operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila. Boris Chirkov plays him. Lev Arnshtam directed. The Russian title is Глинка.
Cast & crew
More about The Great Glinka
Arnshtam also wrote it. Aleksandr Shelenkov photographed. Vissarion Shebalin composed the score. Released in September 1946. Vasili Merkuryev, Valentina Serova, Vladimir Druzhnikov, and Boris Livanov are billed. It was entered at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. It received the Stalin Prize of the second degree in 1947.
Themes
Look
Aleksandr Shelenkov photographed the biography.
Music
Vissarion Shebalin wrote the score around Glinka's music.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Mosfilm made it, not Lenfilm.
- Chirkov is Glinka.
- The Cannes credit is a festival entry, not a prize.
- The Stalin Prize is second degree, 1947.
Awards
- Stalin Prize, second degree (1947)
Scenes
- The film stages the work on A Life for the Tsar and on Ruslan and Lyudmila.
