The Great Glinka

The Great Glinka (Глинка)
Directed by	Lev Arnshtam
Written by	Lev Arnshtam
Starring	Boris Chirkov Vasili Merkuryev Mikhail Derzhavin Vladimir Druzhnikov Katya Ivanova Valentina Serova
Cinematography	Yu-Lan Chen Aleksandr Shelenkov
Edited by	Tatyana Likhachyova
Music by	Vissarion Shebalin
Release date	September 1946 (1946-09)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Great Glinka (Russian: Глинка, romanized: Glinka) is a 1946 Soviet biopic film directed by Lev Arnshtam. The film is about Mikhail Glinka, a Russian composer of the 19th century. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

• Boris Chirkov as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
• Vasili Merkuryev as Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich
• Mikhail Derzhavin as Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
• Vladimir Druzhnikov as Rileyev
• Katya Ivanova as Anna Petrovna Kern
• Valentina Serova as Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka
• Klavdiya Polovikova as Luisa Karlovna Ivanova, her mother
• Pyotr Alejnikov as Pushkin (as Petr Alennikov)
• Nikolai Svobodin as Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen
• Aleksandr Sobolev as Glinka as a Child (as Sasha Sobolev)
• Lev Snezhnitsky as Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka (as L. Shnezhnitsky)
• Ye. Kondratyeva as Mother Glinka
• Viktor Koltsov as Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky
• Vladimir Vladislavsky as Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky
• Mikhail Yanshin as Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky

External links

• The Great Glinka at IMDb