About
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.
Director
Writer
Producer
Music
Studio
Lenfilm
Original Title
Академик Иван Павлов
Original Language
Russian
Cast
Full credits →A
Aleksandr Borisov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
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Nina Alisova
Varvara Antonovna Ivanova
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Vladimir Chestnokov
Lev Zakarich Zabelin
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Fyodor Nikitin
Gleb Mikhailovich Zvantsev
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Vladimir Balashov
Semenov
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Nikolai Plotnikov
Nikodin Vasilyevich
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Ivan Dmitriev
Dmitri Pavlov
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Grigoriy Shpigel
Professor Petrushev
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Vasili Sofronov
Arkip Semyonovich Telegin
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Nikolai Cherkasov
Maxim Gorky
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Roman Rubinshteyn
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Konstantin Adashevsky
Stepan Lukich
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Nikolay Kharitonov
student
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Vladimir Kryuger
John Hicks (uncredited)
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Vasiliy Maksimov
American Journalist
