Nine Days in One Year
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Nine Days in One Year is a 1962 Soviet black-and-white
drama film
directed by Mikhail Romm
about nuclear particle physics, Soviet scientists (physicists) and their relationship.
The film won the Crystal Globe
Award in 1962.
) and sceptical physicist-theorist Ilya Kulikov (Smoktunovsky
) carry out nuclear researches in the siberian research institute. Dmitri heads the researches begun by his teacher Sintsov which as a result of experiment has received a deadly dose of radiation
. Gusev is irradiated also. Doctors warn that any more radiation will kill him. At that time between his friend Ilya and Lyolya, loved Dmitri, established romantic relations. The enamoured prepare for wedding and search for possibility to inform it to Dmitri. At a meeting Dmitri guesses about it, having received Lyolya and Ilya coldly. At Lyolya's heart play self-contradictions, she tries to find out his true feelings to her as a result having learnt about the terrible diagnosis. Realising that she still loves Dmitri, Lyolya cancels wedding with Kulikov for wedding with Gusev.
Despite an interdiction of doctors Gusev continues experiences. After a number of failures he addresses for the help to Kulikov. At carrying out of the experiment which has ended successfully, Gusev receives a new irradiation dose. He hides it from everyone, from the wife which incorrectly interprets his isolation, but the truth reveals. Research work is continued by Kulikov. Dmitri's health worsens, he decides to struggle up to the end and draws on carrying out to it operations on a bone marrow transplantation.
Off-screen voice by Zinovi Gerdt
(narrator).
Black-and-white
Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Ilych Romm was a Soviet film director.He was born in Irkutsk. His father was a social democrat of Jewish descent who had been exiled there. He graduated from gymnasium in 1917 and entered the Moscow College for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture...
about nuclear particle physics, Soviet scientists (physicists) and their relationship.
The film won the Crystal Globe
Crystal Globe
Crystal Globe is the main award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, first given in the city of Karlovy Vary of the Czech Republic, in 1948.In the international competition of films, IFFKV presents the following awards:...
Award in 1962.
Plot summary
Two young physicists, afflicted experimenter Dmitri Gusev (BatalovAleksey Batalov
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov is a Soviet and Russian actor who has been acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.-Biography:...
) and sceptical physicist-theorist Ilya Kulikov (Smoktunovsky
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Innokentiy Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky was a Soviet actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990....
) carry out nuclear researches in the siberian research institute. Dmitri heads the researches begun by his teacher Sintsov which as a result of experiment has received a deadly dose of radiation
Radiation poisoning
Acute radiation syndrome also known as radiation poisoning, radiation sickness or radiation toxicity, is a constellation of health effects which occur within several months of exposure to high amounts of ionizing radiation...
. Gusev is irradiated also. Doctors warn that any more radiation will kill him. At that time between his friend Ilya and Lyolya, loved Dmitri, established romantic relations. The enamoured prepare for wedding and search for possibility to inform it to Dmitri. At a meeting Dmitri guesses about it, having received Lyolya and Ilya coldly. At Lyolya's heart play self-contradictions, she tries to find out his true feelings to her as a result having learnt about the terrible diagnosis. Realising that she still loves Dmitri, Lyolya cancels wedding with Kulikov for wedding with Gusev.
Despite an interdiction of doctors Gusev continues experiences. After a number of failures he addresses for the help to Kulikov. At carrying out of the experiment which has ended successfully, Gusev receives a new irradiation dose. He hides it from everyone, from the wife which incorrectly interprets his isolation, but the truth reveals. Research work is continued by Kulikov. Dmitri's health worsens, he decides to struggle up to the end and draws on carrying out to it operations on a bone marrow transplantation.
Cast
- Aleksey BatalovAleksey BatalovAleksey Vladimirovich Batalov is a Soviet and Russian actor who has been acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.-Biography:...
as Dmitri Gusev - Innokenty SmoktunovskyInnokenty SmoktunovskyInnokentiy Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky was a Soviet actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990....
as Ilya Kulikov - Tatyana Lavrova as Lyolya
- Nikolai Plotnikov as professor Sintsov
- Sergei Blinnikov
- Yevgeniy YevstigneyevYevgeniy YevstigneyevYevgeniy Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev was a prominent Soviet movie and theater actor and one of the founders of Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR ....
as Nikolai Ivanovich - Mikhail KozakovMikhail KozakovMikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov was a Russian-Israeli film and theatre director and actor.- References :...
- Valentin Nikulin
- Pavel Shpringfeld
- Aleksandr Pelevin
- Yevgeni Teterin as professor Pokrovsky (surgeon)
- Nikolai Sergeyev as Gusev's Father
- Ada VojtsikAda VojtsikAda Ignatievna Vojtsik was a Russian actress.-Selected filmography:*Vsya korolevskaya rat *Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya *9 dney odnogo goda...
- Valentina Belyayeva as doctor
- Lyusyena OvchinnikovaLyusyena OvchinnikovaLyusyena Ovchinnikova was a Soviet film actress. She appeared in 37 films between 1959 and 1993.-Filmography:* Adventures of Mowgli * Strong with Spirit * Nine Days in One Year...
Off-screen voice by Zinovi Gerdt
Zinovi Gerdt
Zinovy Efimovich Gerdt was a Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor, recognized with the title People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:At 15, Gerdt graduated from a vocational school affiliated with the Valerian Kuybyshev Electrical Plant. He started working on Metrostroy as a...
(narrator).