Smoke of the Fatherland (1980)
The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ancestors. A shaky road raises thoughts and reminiscences about his days of youth, about the time when he was young and unknown, how he made first steps on his long way of the truth comprehension. He recollects early death and funeral of his mother, the repeated, and not very successful marriage of his father, hatred of stepmother, care of godfather, who gave him the books of Peter the Great, wandering monk, who taught him the fundamentals of science, Latin, and, of course, his first love.
Director:
Yaropolk Lapshin
Writers:
Eduard Volodarskiy, Vladimir Akimov.
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Mikhail Zimin as |
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Andrey Nikolaev as |
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Pyotr Velyaminov as |
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Vladimir Samoylov as |
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Valentina Ananina as |
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Igor Ledogorov as |
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Tamara Syomina as |
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Vladimir Pitsek as |
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Dariya Mikhaylova as |
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Viktor Shulgin as |
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Vadim Nikitin as |
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Elizaveta Volgina as |
| Directing | Yaropolk Lapshin | Director |
| Writing | Eduard Volodarskiy | Screenplay |
| Writing | Vladimir Akimov | Screenplay |
| Camera | Viktor Osennikov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vladimir Khotinenko | Production Design |
| Art | Vyacheslav Panfilov | Production Design |
| Sound | Yuriy Levitin | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Margarita Tomilova | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | E. Bulycheva | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | I. Kolesnikova | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyubov Barkalova | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Rudolf Meshcheryagin | Camera Operator |
| Editing | S. Tarik | Editor |
| Camera | Georgy Mayer | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | V. Kolmogorov | Assistant Camera |
| Art | V. Kryuchkov | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | N. Matorina | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | Tamara Sagirova | Assistant Production Design |
| Sound | V. Klyuev | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Z. Trubnikova | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Mikhail Tarshis | Sound Assistant |
| Directing | V. Dyachenko | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | T. Yershova | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | L. Ivanova | Third Assistant Director |
| Sound | Vladimir Vasilyev | Conductor |
| Crew | A. Preobrazhenskiy | Scientific Consultant |
| Crew | M. Kurmacheva | Scientific Consultant |
| Writing | L. Kozlova | Script Editor |
| Sound | I. Orlov | Music Editor |
| Production | Gennady Alekseev | Executive Producer |