The Composer Glinka
Kompozitor Glinka (; English literal translation, Composer Glinka; American release title Man of Music) is a 1952 Soviet biographical film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov.

Plot 
The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy.

After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I changes the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen.  Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen".

When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.

Cast 
 Boris Smirnov as Mikhail Glinka
 Lev Durasov as Alexander Pushkin
 Lyubov Orlova as Lyudmila Glinka
 Yury Lyubimov as Alexander Dargomyzhsky
 Georgy Vitsin as Nikolai Gogol
 Konstantin Nassonov as Vasily Zhukovsky
 Igor Litovkin as Alexander Griboyedov
 Andrei Popov as Vladimir Stasov
 Yury Yurovsky as prince Mikhail Vielgorsky
 Sergei Vecheslov as Vladimir Odoevsky
 Svyatoslav Richter as Franz Liszt
 Bella Vinogradova as Giuditta Pasta
 Alexander Sashin-Nikolsky as Dmitry Petrov
 Mikhail Nazvanov as Nicholas I of Russia
 Irina Likso as Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
 Pavel Pavlenko as Faddey Bulgarin
 Vladimir Saveliev as Karl Ivanovich
 Faina Shevchenko as wife of Karl Ivanovich
 Rina Zelyonaya as general's wife
 Radner Muratov as the hallway in the theater
 Gennady Yudin as Hector Berlioz
 Anatoly Papanov - adjutant of the Grand Duke
 Sergei Kurilov - Karl Bryullov
 Elena Izmailova - Olga Lanskaya, Odoevsky's wife (no credits)

Awards
1953 Locarno International Film Festival
Won: Golden Leopard