Discovery (Открытие) 51 years old

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…

Credits

Discovery Cast

Name Character
Yuriy Nazarov He was 36, now 87 years old
Valeriy Nosik He was 32, 54 years old when he died
Fyodor Odinokov He was 60, 81 years old when he died
Vladimir Ivashov He was 33, 55 years old when he died
Irina Pechernikova She was 27, now 79 years old
Zhanna Prokhorenko She was 33, 71 years old when she died
Vitali Solomin He was 31, 60 years old when he died
Vladimir Balashov He was 52, 76 years old when he died
Mikhail Kononov He was 33, 67 years old when he died
Gediminas Karka He was 50, 68 years old when he died

Discovery Crew

Name Department
Eduard Topol as Writer. He was 34 (now 86) years old Writing
Discovery poster
Discovery (51 years)

  • Release day: Friday, June 22, 1973
  • Runtime: 84 minutes