Academician Ivan Pavlov
Академик Иван Павлов
Release: 1949-02-21
·Runtime: 98m
Drama
History
Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlov’s materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlov’s political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Lenfilm
Cast
Ivan Dmitriev
as Dmitri Pavlov
Grigoriy Shpigel
as Professor Petrushev
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Maxim Gorky
Vladimir Chestnokov
as Lev Zakarich Zabelin
Nikolai Plotnikov
as Nikodin Vasilyevich
Vasili Sofronov
as Arkip Semyonovich Telegin
Konstantin Adashevsky
as Stepan Lukich
Aleksandr Borisov
as Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Nina Alisova
as Varvara Antonovna Ivanova
Fyodor Nikitin
as Gleb Mikhailovich Zvantsev
Vladimir Balashov
as Semenov
