Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry (1941)
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’.
- Released
- 1941-08-29
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Georgi Munblit, Aleksandr Ivanovsky
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Sima, his daughter
- Pavel Kadochnikov as Alexey Mukhin, composer
- Nikolai Konovalov as Anton Ivanovich Voronov, professor
- Tatyana Kondrakova as Dina, Voronov's eldest daughter
- Tamara Glebova as Natalia Mikhailovna, Voronov's wife
- Tamara Pavlotskaya as Yadviga Valentinovna Kholodetskaya
- Aleksandr Orlov as Yakov Grigorievich Kibrik, comedian of the Musical Comedy
- Sergei Martinson as Kerosinov, composer
- Vitaly Kilchevsky as Rollandow, tenor
- Anatoly Korolkevich as Skvoreshnikov, director of musical comedy
- Vladimir Gardin as Johann Sebastian Bach
- Anatoli Nelidov as conservatory vocal professor