Alexander Popov (film)

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, and early developer of radio communication.

Alexander Popov
Directed byGerbert Rappaport
Viktor Eysymont
Written byAlexander Razumovsky
StarringNikolai Cherkasov
Yefim Kopelyan
Aleksandr Borisov
Bruno Freindlich
Yury Tolubeyev
Osip Abdulov
CinematographyAnatoli Nazarov
Yevgeni Shapiro
Production
company
Release date
  • 1949 (1949)
Running time
87 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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
  • Nikolay Cherkasov as Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov
  • Aleksandr Borisov as Rybkin (as A. Borisov)
  • Konstantin Skorobogatov as Admiral Makarov (as K. Skorobogatov)
  • Ilya Sudakov as Mendeleyev (as I. Sudakov)
  • Yuriy Tolubeev as Petrushevsky (as Yu. Tolubeyev)
  • Vladimir Chestnokov as Lyuboslavsky (as V. Chestnokov)
  • Kseniya Blagoveshchenskaya as Raisa Alekseevna (as K. Blagoveshchenskaya)
  • Leonid Vivyen as Tyrtov (as L. Viven)
  • Bruno Freindlikh as Marconi (as B. Freyndlikh)
  • Osip Abdulov as Isaacs (as O. Abdulov)

Awards

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

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