The main character is Viktor Shtrum, a talented Soviet physicist who refuses to blindly follow his "comrades" by signing false documents and becoming a tool in the hands of an all-powerful state. During the war, Shtrum’s mother, Anna Petrovna, was sent to a concentration camp, but her letters continued to arrive for many years and help him remain more moral than those around him.
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Sergey Kuryshev
Tatyana Shestakova
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Elizaveta Boyarskaya
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Igor Ivanov
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Ekaterina
Stanislav Nikolski
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Oleg Dmitriyev
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Oleg Gayanov
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Andrey Kondratyev
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Nikita Sidorov
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Aleksei Zubarev
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Lev Dodin Director · Vasiliy Grossman Author Irina Tsvetkova Production designer
First release March 22, 2017 · Produced in Russia · Original title Жизнь и судьба
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Russia
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Original title
Жизнь и судьба
Original language
Russian
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Russian
Release dates
Russia · March 22, 2017
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No release date listed for United States.
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