"About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka."
Boris Chirkov
as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Vasili Merkuryev
as Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich
Mikhail Derzhavin
as Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Pyotr Aleynikov
as Alexander Pushkin
Katya Ivanova
as Anna Petrovna Kern
Valentina Serova
as Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka
Klavdiya Polovikova
as Luisa Karlovna Ivanova
Nikolai Svobodin
as Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen
Aleksander Sobolev
as Glinka as a child
Lev Snezhnitsky
as Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka
Elena Kondrateva
as Glinka's Mother
Mikhail Nazvanov
as Kostya, the Hussar
Mikhail Yanshin
as Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky
Mikhail Mikhailov
as Osip Afanovich Petrov
Viktor Koltsov
as Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
as Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky
Elizaveta Antonova
as Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva
Lyudmila Lipskerova
as Katerina Kern, as an adult
Boris Livanov
as Czar Nicholas I
Aleksandr Shatov
as Aleksandr Benkendorff
K. Rashevskaya
as Singer of "Antonida"
Mark Pertsovskiy
as Kavos, the conductor
Vladimir Druzhnikov
as Rileyev
Yevgeny Kaluzhsky
as Angry Old Man at Ball
Konstantin Bartashevich
as Maria Petrovna's lover
Vladimir Osenev
as
Kira Golovko
Sergey Kulagin
as "Dignitary"
Leonid Pirogov
Leonid Alekseev
Vladimir Uralskiy
as Vlas, partisan
Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky
as Old official
Lev Arnshtam
Director
Screenplay
Leonid Lavrovsky
Choreographer
N. Petsov
Special Effects
Tatyana Likhachyova
Editor
Nicholas Napoli
Other
Charles Clements
Yu-Lan Chen
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Shelenkov
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Production Design
Vissarion Shebalin
Original Music Composer
Lev Trakhtenberg
Sound Director
Pāvels Armands
Assistant Director
Yuri Vinokurov
S. Reitman
G. Balandina
First Assistant Director
M. Sytov
Assistant Camera
Nikolai Renkov
VFX Director of Photography
Anton Andzhan
Makeup & Hair
Pyotr Kiselyov
Assistant Production Design
R. Gerchikova
Arnold Roytman
Conductor
Kirill Kondrashin
Boris Goldfeder
Musician
Nikolai Sliozberg
Executive Producer