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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’.Read moreLess
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’.
The story
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’.
Cast & crew
Lyudmila TselikovskayaSima, his daughter
Pavel KadochnikovAlexey Mukhin, composer
Nikolai KonovalovAnton Ivanovich Voronov, professor
Tatyana KondrakovaDina, Voronov's eldest daughter
Tamara GlebovaNatalia Mikhailovna, Voronov's wife
Tamara PavlotskayaYadviga Valentinovna Kholodetskaya
Aleksandr OrlovYakov Grigorievich Kibrik, comedian of the Musical Comedy
Sergei MartinsonKerosinov, composer
Anatoly KorolkevichSkvoreshnikov, director of musical comedy
Vladimir GardinJohann Sebastian Bach
Anatoli Nelidovconservatory vocal professorExplore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Screenplay
- Georgi Munblit
- Director of Photography
- Yevgeni Shapiro
- Writer
- Yevgeni Petrov
- Director
- Aleksandr Ivanovsky
- Producer
- Fridrikh Ermler
- Producer
- Yefim Khayutin
- Editor
- Aleksandr Ivanovsky