| Nine Days in One Year | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mikhail Romm |
| Produced by | Cinematography Ministry of the USSR |
| Written by | Daniil Khrabrovitsky Mikhail Romm |
| Narrated by | Zinovi Gerdt |
| Starring | Aleksey Batalov Innokenty Smoktunovsky Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev |
| Music by | Dzhon Ter-Tatevosyan |
| Cinematography | German Lavrov |
| Editing by | Yeva Ladyzhenskaya |
| Distributed by | Mosfilm Artkino Pictures (1964, USA, subtitled) RUSCICO (2004, worldwide, DVD) |
| Release date(s) | March 5, 1962 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Nine Days in One Year (Russian: Девять дней одного года) is a 1962 Soviet black-and-white drama film directed by Mikhail Romm about nuclear particle physics, Soviet scientists (physicists) and their relationship.
The film won the Crystal Globe Award in 1962.
Contents |
Two young physicists, afflicted experimenter Dmitri Gusev (Batalov) and sceptical physicist-theorist Ilya Kulikov (Smoktunovsky) carry out nuclear researches in the siberian research institute. Dmitri heads the researches begun by his teacher Sintsov which as a result of experiment has received a deadly dose of radiation. Gusev is irradiated also. Doctors warn that any more radiation will kill him. At that time between his friend Ilya and Lyolya, loved Dmitri, established romantic relations. The enamoured prepare for wedding and search for possibility to inform it to Dmitri. At a meeting Dmitri guesses about it, having received Lyolya and Ilya coldly. At Lyolya's heart play self-contradictions, she tries to find out his true feelings to her as a result having learnt about the terrible diagnosis. Realising that she still loves Dmitri, Lyolya cancels wedding with Kulikov for wedding with Gusev.
Despite an interdiction of doctors Gusev continues experiences. After a number of failures he addresses for the help to Kulikov. At carrying out of the experiment which has ended successfully, Gusev receives a new irradiation dose. He hides it from everyone, from the wife which incorrectly interprets his isolation, but the truth reveals. Research work is continued by Kulikov. Dmitri's health worsens, he decides to struggle up to the end and draws on carrying out to it operations on a bone marrow transplantation.
Off-screen voice by Zinovi Gerdt (narrator).