"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
Lydia Lipskerova
as Katerina Kern, as an adult
Boris Livanov
as Czar Nicholas I
Aleksander Shatov
as Aleksander 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
Lev Arnshtam
Director
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Art Direction
Screenplay
Aleksander Shelenkov
Director of Photography
N. Petsov
Special Effects
Tatyana Likhachyova
Editor
G. Balandina
Associate Producer
Nicholas Napoli
Other
Anton Andzhan
Makeup Artist
Charles Clements
Yu. Vinokurov
Producer
Kirill Kondrashin
Music Director
N. Sliuzberg
Production Director
S. Reitman
P. Armand
Leonid Lavrovsky
Choreographer
Lev Trakhtenberg
Sound
Arnold Roytman
Yu-Lan Chen