Alexander Popov (Russian: ????????? ?????) is a 1949 biographical film about the life and work of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, who was the notable physicist and electrical engineer, and early developer of radio communication.
Alexander Popov | |
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Directed by | Gerbert Rappaport Viktor Eysymont |
Written by | Alexander Razumovsky |
Starring | Nikolai Cherkasov Yefim Kopelyan Aleksandr Borisov Bruno Freindlich Yury Tolubeyev Osip Abdulov |
Cinematography | Anatoli Nazarov Yevgeni Shapiro |
Production company | Lenfilm |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Screenplay
In the process of scientific search the talent and the power of observation of Popov allowed him to complete a number of unique discoveries. The wireless telegraph invented by him was used for the first time in the heaviest conditions of the polar north, for rescuing people, which proved to be themselves on the ice floe in the open ocean...
- Nikolai Cherkasov as Alexander Stepanovich Popov
- Aleksandr Borisov as Rybkin
- Osip Abdulov
- Konstantin Skorobogatov as Admiral Stepan Makarov
- Ilya Sudakov as Dmitri Mendeleev
- Yury Tolubeyev as Petrushevsky
- Bruno Freindlich as Guglielmo Marconi