Nikolai Vavilov (film)

Nikolai Vavilov (Николай Вавилов) is a 1990 6-part biographical television film. Joint production of the USSR and East Germany. Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov.

Plot
History of life, contribution to science and social activities of academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison.

Cast

 * Kostas Smoriginas as Nikolai Vavilov
 * Andrey Martynov as Sergey Vavilov
 * Irina Kupchenko as Nikolai Vavilov's second wife Yelena
 * Bohdan Stupka as Trofim Lysenko
 * Sergey Gazarov as Isaac Present
 * Georgy Kavtaradze as Stalin
 * Tamara Degtyaryova as Katya, Nikolai Vavilov's first wife
 * Sergey Plotnikov as Ivan Ilyich,  father of  brothers Vavilovs
 * Nikolai Lavrov as Professor Oleg Avdeev
 * Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Natalia Karlovna Lemke, Nikolai Vavilov's secretary
 * Vyacheslav Ezepov as Andrei Zhdanov
 * Rim Ayupov as Vyacheslav Abramovich Terentyev
 * Nina Usatova as collective farm chairman
 * Igor Ivanov as Semyon Petrovich Scheludko
 * Elizaveta Nikischihina as Terentyeva
 * Georgy Sahakyan as double Stalin

Film crew

 * Screenwriters — Sergey Dyachenko, Yuri Arabov, Aleksandr Proshkin
 * Director-producer — Aleksandr Proshkin
 * Composer — Vladimir Martynov
 * Operator — Boris Brozhovsky
 * Production designers — Valery Filippov, Ulrich Bergfelder

Episodes

 * 1.) Family (Семья)
 * 2.) Secretary (Секретарша)
 * 3.) Bodyguard (Телохранитель)
 * 4.) Wife (Жена)
 * 5.) Eldest Son (Старший сын)
 * 6.) Bonfire (Костёр)