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The Great Glinka 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.
Original Release
06/06/1946
US Release
12/20/1946
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Boris Chirkov | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka |
| Vasiliy Merkurev | Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich |
| Mikhail Derzhavin | Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky / Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky |
| Vladimir Druzhnikov | Rileyev |
| Katya Ivanova | Anna Petrovna Kern |
| Valentina Serova | Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka |
| Klavdiya Polovikova | Luisa Karlovna Ivanova, her mother / Luisa Karlovna Ivanova |
| Pyotr Aleynikov | Pushkin / Alexander Pushkin |
| Nikolai Svobodin | Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen |
| Aleksandr Sobolev | Glinka as a Child |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Boris Chirkov | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka |
| Vasiliy Merkurev | Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich |
| Mikhail Derzhavin | Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky / Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky |
| Vladimir Druzhnikov | Rileyev |
| Katya Ivanova | Anna Petrovna Kern |
| Valentina Serova | Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka |
| Klavdiya Polovikova | Luisa Karlovna Ivanova, her mother / Luisa Karlovna Ivanova |
| Pyotr Aleynikov | Pushkin / Alexander Pushkin |
| Nikolai Svobodin | Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen |
| Aleksandr Sobolev | Glinka as a Child |
| Lev Snezhnitsky | Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka |
| Viktor Koltsov | Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky |
| Vladimir Vladislavskiy | Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky |
| Mikhail Yanshin | Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky |
| Ye. Antonova | Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva |
| Maksim Mikhaylov | Petrov |
| Lydia Lipskerova | Katerina "Katinka" Kern, as an adult / Katerina Kern, as an adult |
| Mikhail Nazvanov | Kostya the Hussar / Kostya, the Hussar |
| Boris Livanov | Czar Nicholas I |
| Aleksandr Shatov | Aleksandr Kristoforovich Benkendorff, his aide |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| N. Sliozberg | Executive Producer |
