Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry
Антон Иванович сердится
Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards it as the ultimate yardstick by which other musical accomplishments must be measured. His daughter, Serafima, is an aspiring singer with great potential, and her father’s anger is aroused when she begins singing in the operetta composed by Aleksei Mukhin, thus abandoning what he considers the higher calling of opera. Mukhin’s work, however, demands a high level of ability from his soloist, and Anton Ivanovich is persuaded of the legitimacy of operetta as a musical genre when, in a dream, he is visited by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who tells him that ‘people need all kinds of music’.
Production Countries
Production Companies
Cast
Aleksandr Orlov
as Yakov Grigorievich Kibrik, comedian of the Musical Comedy
Sergei Martinson
as Kerosinov, composer
Anatoli Nelidov
as conservatory vocal professor
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
as Sima, his daughter
Pavel Kadochnikov
as Alexey Mukhin, composer
Nikolai Konovalov
as Anton Ivanovich Voronov, professor
Tamara Glebova
as Natalia Mikhailovna, Voronov's wife
Tamara Pavlotskaya
as Yadviga Valentinovna Kholodetskaya
Anatoly Korolkevich
as Skvoreshnikov, director of musical comedy
Vladimir Gardin
as Johann Sebastian Bach
Tatyana Kondrakova
as Dina, Voronov's eldest daughter
Crew
Georg Friedrich Händel
Music
Fridrikh Ermler
Producer
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Original Music Composer
Yevgeni Shapiro
Director of Photography
Vsevolod Rozhdestvenskiy
Lyricist
Johann Sebastian Bach
Music
Yevgeni Petrov
Writer
Abram Veksler
Production Design
Arkadi Koltsaty
Additional Director of Photography
Leon Jeannot
First Assistant Director
Elza Rappoport
Assistant Production Design
Charles Gounod
Music
Semyon Mandel
Set Designer