The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science...
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Lyudmila Chursina
Татьяна Петровна Власенкова
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Lyudmila Gurchenko
Глафира Сергеевна Рыбакова
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Station for Two
Love and Pigeons
Veniamin Kaverin
Vladimir Fetin
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Known for
Solaris
Aleksandr Demyanenko
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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Natalya Ryazantseva
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I Am Twenty
Fyodor Nikitin
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Fragment of an Empire
The Parisian Cobbler
Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Dmitri Lvov
Anna Aleksakhina
Also in
Russian Ark
Father and Son
Igor Dobryakov
Known for
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Known for
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
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Vladimir Fetin Director · Natalya Ryazantseva Screenplay Veniamin Kaverin Screenplay
First release September 16, 1974 · Produced in Russia · Original title Открытая книга
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Lenfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Открытая книга
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · September 16, 1974
Russia · September 16, 1974
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