''Alexander Popov'' (russian: Александр Попов) is a 1949
biographical film
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directed by
Herbert Rappaport
Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director.
Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now Lv ...
about the life and work of
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; – ) was a Russian physicist, who was one of the first persons to invent a radio receiving device. declassified 8 Januar ...
, who was the notable
physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
and
electrical
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engineer, and early developer of radio communication.
Synopsis
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
wireless telegraph
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invented by him was used for the first time in the heaviest conditions of the polar north, for rescuing people, which proved to be themselves on the ice floe in the open ocean...
Role as propaganda film
Along with Grigori Roshal's
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov ( rus, Ива́н Петро́вич Па́влов, , p=ɪˈvan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈpavləf, a=Ru-Ivan_Petrovich_Pavlov.ogg; 27 February 1936), was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist, psychologist and physiol ...
, which came out that same year, Alexander Popov was among the first in a series of patriotic biographical films produces in the Soviet Union which aimed to prove the superiority of Russian and Soviet science and art over that of the West.
The films acknowledges the Italian inventor
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; 25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italians, Italian inventor and electrical engineering, electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based Wireless telegrap ...
Nikolay Cherkasov
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1947).
Career
He was born in Saint Petersburg (lat ...
Konstantin Skorobogatov
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as Admiral Makarov
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Ilya Sudakov
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as Mendeleyev
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Yuriy Tolubeev
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as Petrushevsky
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Vladimir Chestnokov Vladimir Ivanovich Chestnokov (russian: Владимир Иванович Честноко́в; (30 March) 12 April 1904, St. Petersburg – 15 May 1968, Leningrad) was a Soviet film and theater actor, theater teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1 ...
as Lyuboslavsky
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Kseniya Blagoveshchenskaya
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as Raisa Alekseevna
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Leonid Vivyen
Leonid (russian: Леонид ; uk, Леонід ; be, Леанід, Ljeaníd ) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide.
People with the name include:
*Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), Russian playwright and ...
as Tyrtov
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Bruno Freindlikh
Bruno may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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* Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880)
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as Marconi
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Osip Abdulov
Osip Naumovich Abdulov (russian: Осип Наумович Абдулов; in Łódź – 14 June 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor.
Biography
Osip Naumovich Abdulov was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland (then part of the Russian Empi ...
as Isaacs
Awards
In 1951 for this film both directors, both operators and main actors (Cherkasov, Skorobogatov, Freindlich, Borisov) received the
Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to:
* The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...