Failure of Engineer Garin

Failure of Engineer Garin (Крах инженера Гарина, translit. Krakh inzhenera Garina) is a 1973 Soviet television film in four parts loosely based on a novel Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Alexei Tolstoy. Produced by Lenfilm by the order of Gosteleradio of USSR

Plot summary
A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target on practically any distance. Staging his death he emigrates from Russia as a French merchant and tries to find contacts with the head of one of the largest financial trusts in Europe, Mr. Rolling. The final goal of Garin is to rule the world.

Cast

 * Oleg Borisov as Pyotr Garin
 * Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Vasili Shelga
 * Vasili Korzun as Rolling
 * Nonna Terentyeva as Zoe Montrose
 * Vladimir Tatosov as Tyklinski
 * Mikhail Volkov as Sсhefer
 * Alexander Kaidanovsky as Dr. Wolf
 * Grigori Gaj as Reicher
 * Anatoli Shvedersky as Ditz
 * Algimantas Masiulis as Sсhtufen
 * Igor Kuznetsov as doctor
 * Valentin Nikulin as Portier
 * Yefim Kopelyan as Gaston, the 'Duck Nose'
 * Vitali Yushkov as Arnoud
 * Gediminas Karka as episode
 * Aleksandr Demyanenko as episode
 * Vladimr Kostin as Investigator
 * Ernst Romanov as Khlynov
 * Gennady Saifulin as Victor Lenoir