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'''Alexander Popov''' (1949) is a biographical film about the life and work of Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859-1905), who was the notable physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of the radio communication.
In the process of scientific search the talent and the power of observation of Popov allowed him to complete a number of unique discoveries. The invented by him the wireless telegraph was for the first time used in the heaviest conditions of the polar north, for the rescuing of people, which proved to be themselves on the ice floe in the open ocean...

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Cast

★ Alexander Stepanovich Popov - Nikolai Cherkasov.

★ Admiral Stepan Makarov - Konstantin Skorobogatov.

★ Dmitri Mendeleev - Ilya Sudakov.

★ Mikhail Petrashevsky - Yury Tolubeyev.

★ Guglielmo Marconi - Bruno Freindlich.

Awards

In 1951 for this film both directors, operators and main actors (Cherkasov, Skorobogatov, Freindlich) received the Stalin Prize of 2nd degree.