Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov (1949)

DramaHistory

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: Grigoriy Roshal
Writer: Mikhail Papava

Casts

	Aleksandr Borisov as Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
	Nina Alisova as Varvara Antonovna Ivanova
	Vladimir Chestnokov as Lev Zakarich Zabelin
	Fyodor Nikitin as Gleb Mikhailovich Zvantsev
	Vladimir Balashov as Semenov
	Nikolai Plotnikov as Nikodin Vasilyevich
	Ivan Dmitriev as Dmitri Pavlov
	Grigoriy Shpigel as Professor Petrushev
	Vasili Sofronov as Arkip Semyonovich Telegin
	Grigori Belinnkevich as Sergei Mironovich Kirov
	Nikolai Cherkasov as Maxim Gorky
	Roman Rubinshteyn as
	Konstantin Adashevsky as Stepan Lukich
	Nikolay Kharitonov as student
	Vladimir Kryuger as John Hicks (uncredited)

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