Rimsky-Korsakov () 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.