Academician Ivan Pavlov

February. 21,1949      
Rating:
6.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlov’s materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlov’s political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.

Aleksandr Borisov as  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Nina Alisova as  Varvara Antonovna Ivanova
Vladimir Chestnokov as  Lev Zakarich Zabelin
Fyodor Nikitin as  Gleb Mikhailovich Zvantsev
Vladimir Balashov as  Semenov
Nikolai Plotnikov as  Nikodin Vasilyevich
Ivan Dmitriev as  Dmitri Pavlov
Grigoriy Shpigel as  Professor Petrushev
Vasili Sofronov as  Arkip Semyonovich Telegin
Nikolai Cherkasov as  Maxim Gorky