Baltic Deputy

Overview

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 27, 1937

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm

Cast

Boris Livanov,Mikhail Dubrava,Vsevolod Semyonov,Fyodor Kurikhin,Mykola Nademskyi,Stepan Kayukov,Nikolay Urvantsov,Aleksandr Melnikov,Lev Krovitskiy,Oleg Zhakovand 8 more

Director

Iosif Kheifits,Aleksandr Zarkhi

Writer

Leonid Rakhmanov,Iosif Kheifits,Leonid Lyubashevsky,Aleksandr Zarkhi

Producer

Igor Chernyak

Cinematography

Mikhail Kaplan

Music

Nikolay Timofeyev

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0027509