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’.
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Sergei Martinson
as Kerosinov, composer
Anatoly Korolkevich
as Skvoreshnikov, director of musical comedy
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
as Sima, his daughter
Pavel Kadochnikov
as Alexey Mukhin, composer
Tatyana Kondrakova
as Dina, Voronov's eldest daughter
Tamara Glebova
as Natalia Mikhailovna, Voronov's wife
Vladimir Gardin
as Johann Sebastian Bach
Anatoli Nelidov
as conservatory vocal professor
Nikolai Konovalov
as Anton Ivanovich Voronov, professor
Tamara Pavlotskaya
as Yadviga Valentinovna Kholodetskaya
Aleksandr Orlov
as Yakov Grigorievich Kibrik, comedian of the Musical Comedy
Crew
Abram Veksler
Production Design
Elza Rappoport
Assistant Production Design
Yevgeni Petrov
Writer
Fridrikh Ermler
Producer
Charles Gounod
Music
Georg Friedrich Händel
Music
Arkadi Koltsaty
Additional Director of Photography
Leon Jeannot
First Assistant Director
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Original Music Composer
Semyon Mandel
Set Designer
Vsevolod Rozhdestvenskiy
Lyricist
Johann Sebastian Bach
Music
Yevgeni Shapiro
Director of Photography