Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry (1941): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1941, Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry is a comedy and music film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky, running about 80 minutes.

What it’s about. 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’.

Who’s in it. Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry stars Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Sima, his daughter, Pavel Kadochnikov as Alexey Mukhin, composer, Nikolai Konovalov as Anton Ivanovich Voronov, professor and Tatyana Kondrakova as Dina, Voronov's eldest daughter, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry page.

If you liked it. Fans of Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry tend to enjoy Forrest Gump, Parasite, Life Is Beautiful and Fight Club.