Nikolai Vavilov (film)

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Nikolai Vavilov
Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin
Written by Yury Arabov
Aleksandr Proshkin
Sergey Dyachenko
Starring Kostas Smoriginas
Bohdan Stupka
Music by Vladimir Martynov
Cinematography Boris Brozhovsky
Production
company
Mosfilm
Jonas Film
Soyuztelefilm
Release dates
1990
Running time
554 minutes
Country Soviet Union
East Germany
Language Russian

Nikolai Vavilov (Russian: Николай Вавилов) is a 6-part television film in 1990. Joint production of the USSR and Germany. Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov.[1]

Plot

The history of life, contribution to science and public activities of Academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, and the subsequent arrest of the scientist's death in prison.[2]

Cast

  • Kostas Smoriginas as Nikolai Vavilov [3]
  • Andrey Martynov as Sergei Vavilov
  • Irina Kupchenko as Lena, the second wife of Nikolai Vavilov, the mother of the Jura
  • Bohdan Stupka as Lysenko
  • Sergey Gazarov as Isaac Present
  • Georgy Kavtaradze as Stalin
  • Tamara Degtyaryova as Katya, the first wife of Nikolai Vavilov
  • Sergey Plotnikov as Ivan Ilyich, the father of the brothers Vavilovs
  • Nikolai Lavrov as Professor Oleg Avdeev
  • Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Natalia Karlovna Lemke, secretary Nikolai Vavilov
  • Vyacheslav Ezepov as Andrei Zhdanov
  • Rim Ayupov as Vyacheslav Abramovich Terentyev
  • Nina Usatova as the collective farm chairman
  • Igor Ivanov as Semyon Petrovich Scheludko
  • Elizaveta Nikischihina as Terentyeva
  • Georgy Sahakyan as double Stalin

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