Mikhail Glinka

Birth : 1804-06-01, Smolensk Governorate

Death : 1857-02-15

Movies

Fedor Chalyapin. Exile
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The film is about why Fedor Chalyapin was actually expelled from his native country and left Russia forever.
Elegy of a Voyage
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This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.
Ruslan and Lyudmila
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka's magical masterpiece in its entirety, inspired by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's poem of a Russian tale. An evil sorcerer Chernomor casts a spell over wedding celebrations for Ruslan and Lyudmila at the court of Svetozar, the Prince of Kiev. Lyudmila vanishes and her father promises her hand and half his kingdom to the knight who rescues her. Ruslan on this quest of rescue encounters the knights Ratmir and Farlaf, the wise wizard Finn, the slave of Ratmir, Gorislava and sorceress Naina before confronting Chernomor in his magic garden. After all the challenges for Ruslan, true love prevails.
The Long Recess
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A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.