Rimsky-Korsakov (film)

Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Римский-Корсаков) is a 1953 Soviet biopic directed by Gennadi Kazansky and Grigori Roshal and starring Grigori Belov, Nikolai Cherkasov and Aleksandr Borisov. The film portrays the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The film was shot in Sovcolor.

Cast

• Grigori Belov as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Nikolai Cherkasov as Vladimir Stasov
• Aleksandr Borisov as Savva Mamontov
• Liliya Gritsenko as Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel
• Viktor Khokhryakov as Alexander Glazunov
• Anatoliy Kuznetsov as Anatoly Lyadov
• Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Rimskaya-Korsakova
• Aleksandr Ognivtsev as Feodor Chaliapin
• Boris Kokovkin as Valentin Serov
• Sergei Kurilov as Mikhail Vrubel
• Lidiya Dranovskaya as Almazova
• Anatoli Verbitsky as Mikhailov
• Tatyana Lennikova as Lebedeva
• Agasi Babayan as Daryan
• Bruno Freindlich as Ramensky
• Vladimir Balashov as Sergei Diaghilev
• Fyodor Nikitin as The Grand Duke
• Yevgeni Lebedev as Kashchey in Kashchey the Deathless opera

See also

• Sadko is a film also from 1953 that adapts Rimsky-Korsakov's opera.

References

Bibliography

• Mitchell, Charles P. The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 Through 2002. McFarland & Company, 2004.

External links

• Rimsky-Korsakov at IMDb