Wed 2 June 2010
Screening
Nine Days of One Year
In association with Kino Kino!

Language: In Russian with English subtitles

USSR | 1962 | 111 min | b/w | director Mikhail Romm, with Alexei Batalov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Tatiana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Yevgheny Yevstigneyev, Mikhail Kozakov, Valentin Nikulin, Luciena Ovchinnikova, Sergei Blinnikov, Ada Voitsik, Nikolai Sergeyev, Andrei Smirnov, Igor Yasulovich, Zinovy Gerdt

The action of this intellectual drama takes place in the 1960s. Two young nuclear scientists – the possessed experimentator Gusev and the sceptical theoretician-physicist Kulikov – are old friends, both in love with the same girl, Lyolia. In the course of his scientific experiments, Gusev gets a possibly fatal dose of radiation. Despite the doctors’ warnings of life-threatening danger, the scientist wouldn’t stop his quest for the truth, although his days may be numbered…Starring in the principal roles were the most prominent Russian actors Innokenty Smoktunovsky and Alexei Batalov.