Nikolai Vavilov (film)

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

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

Plot

History of life, contribution to science and social activities of academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison.^[2]

Cast

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

Episodes

• 1.) Family (Russian: Семья)
• 2.) Secretary (Russian: Секретарша)
• 3.) Bodyguard (Russian: Телохранитель)
• 4.) Wife (Russian: Жена)
• 5.) Eldest Son (Russian: Старший сын)
• 6.) Bonfire (Russian: Костёр)

References

External links

• Nikolai Vavilov on IMDb
• Nikolai Vavilov at the Kino-Teatr.ru