Nine Days of One Year (1962)
9 dney odnogo goda
111 min
Set in the Soviet scientific community, the story follows two dedicated physicists whose close friendship unfolds amid dangerous nuclear research, shaped by their shared affection for a strong-willed woman. Radiation exposure, scientific ambition, and romantic rivalries intersect as the characters confront the physical risks of their work and the personal consequences of their choices.
- Release date
- March 5, 1962
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Music
- Dzhon Ter-Tatevosyan
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Cast
- Aleksey Batalov as Dmitri Gusev
- Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Ilya Kulikov
- Tatyana Lavrova as Lyolya
- Mikhail Kozakov as Valery, physicist
- Nikolai Plotnikov as Professor Sintsov
- Sergei Blinnikov as Pavel Butov, director of the Institute
- Evgeniy Evstigneev as Nikolai Ivanovich
- Valentin Nikulin as young physicist
- Pavel Shpringfeld as Guest physicist
- Andrey Smirnov as tall bearded physicist
- Evgeniy Teterin as Surgeon
- Zinoviy Gerdt as Narrator (voice)
- Aleksandr Pelevin as Guest physicist
Crew
- Mikhail Romm · Director
- Mikhail Romm · Writer
- Daniil Khrabrovitsky · Writer
- Dzhon Ter-Tatevosyan · Composer
- German Lavrov · Cinematographer
- Eva Ladyzhenskaya · Editor
- Georgi Kolganov · Production designer