Alexander Popov (film)

Alexander Popov
Directed by Gerbert Rappaport
Viktor Eysymont
Written by Alexander Razumovsky
Starring Nikolai Cherkasov
Yefim Kopelyan
Alexander Borisov
Bruno Freindlich
Yury Tolubeyev
Osip Abdulov
Cinematography Anatoli Nazarov
Yevgeni Shapiro
Production
company
Release dates
  • 1949 (1949)
Running time
87 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

Alexander Popov (Russian: Александр Попов) is a 1949 biographical film about the life and work of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, who was the notable physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of radio communication.

Synopsis

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...

Cast

Awards

In 1951 for this film both directors, both operators and main actors (Cherkasov, Skorobogatov, Freindlich, Borisov) received the Stalin Prize of 2nd degree.

External links

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