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DEPUTY FOR THE BALTIC
1936, 96 in., b/w.
Historical-Revolutionary.
Director: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifitz, screenplay: Leonid Rakhmanov, Daniil Del, Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifitz, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Nikolay Suvorov, Vladimir Kalyagin, music: Nikolay Timofeyev, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky, Yevgeni Nesterov.
Cast: Nikolay Cherkasov, Maria Domasheva, Oleg Zhakov, Boris Livanov, Alexander Melnikov.
Set in 1917 the film focuses on the life of a Russian
botanist in the days of the October Revolution. The
prototype of the protagonist was the noted Russian
naturalist Klimenty Timiryazev (1843 — 1920).
For this film, the main members of the crew and
cast received the Stalin Prize (second class): I. Heifitz,
A. Zarkhi (1941).
Grand Prix in the Film Contest at the World Fair in
Paris, France (1937).
Brass Medal at the 7th IFF in Venice, Italy (1946).
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Lenfilm gold classics