The Great Glinka

The Great Glinka (Глинка) 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.

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)