Failure of Engineer Garin
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Failure of Engineer Garin (Russian: Крах инженера Гарина, translit. Krakh inzhenera Garina) is a Soviet 1973 television film in four parts loosely based on a novel Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin («Гиперболоид инженера Гарина») by Alexei Tolstoy. Directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze, script written by Sergei Potepalov. Produced by Lenfilm by the order of Gosteleradio of USSR. Total runtime - 247 min. Editing by Alexandra Borovskaya, cinematography by Vyacheslav Fastovich. Original music score by Vladislav Uspenskiy, conductor - Yuri Serebryakov. Sound design by Galina Gorbonosova. Stage producer - Boris Bykov.
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A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target on practically any distance. Staging his death hi emigrates from Russia as a French merchant and tries to find contacts with the head of one of the largest financial trusts in Europe, Mr. Rolling. The final goal of Garin is to rule the world...
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- Oleg Borisov as Pyotr Garin
- Aleksandr Belyavsky as Vasili Shelga
- Vasili Korzun as Rolling
- Nonna Terentyeva as Zoya
- Vladimir Tatosov as Tyklinskiy
- Mikhail Volkov as Shefer
- Aleksandr Kajdanovsky as Dr. Wolf
- Grigori Gaj as Raikher
- Anatoli Shvedersky as Ditz
- Algimantas Masiulis as ''Shtufen
- Ivan Kuznetsov
- Valentin Nikulin as Portier
- Yefim Kopelyan as Gaston, the 'Duck nose'
- Vitali Yushkov as Arnu
- Gediminas Karka
- Sergei Svistunov
- Vladimr Kostin as Investigator
- Ernst Romanov as Khlynov
- Gennady Saifulin as Lenuar