84 minutes
6/22/1973
This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…
Donatas Banionis
as Сергей Матвеевич Юрышев (академик)
Mikhail Kononov
as Сергей Юрышев (в молодости)
Zhanna Prokhorenko
as Анка
Irina Pechernikova
as Лиза
Vitali Solomin
as Андрей Сергеевич Юрышев / Дмитрий Каточкин
Vladimir Ivashov
as Илья Стасов
Gediminas Karka
as Чанеев (директор института)
Fyodor Odinokov
as горный мастер
Yuriy Nazarov
as белогвардейский офицер
Valeriy Nosik
as заика, уголовный ссыльный
Vladimir Balashov
as член комиссии по расследованию аварии
Gražina Baikštytė
as жена Андрея