This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…
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Donatas Banionis
Сергей Матвеевич Юрышев (академик)
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Mikhail Kononov
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Zhanna Prokhorenko
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Irina Pechernikova
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Valeriy Nosik
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Vladimir Balashov
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Gražina Baikštytė
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Baras Halzanov Director · Eduard Topol Writer Vladislav Rastorguev Production designer
First release June 22, 1973 · Produced in Russia · Original title Открытие
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Russia
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Original title
Открытие
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 22, 1973
Russia · June 22, 1973
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No release date listed for United States.
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