Smoke of the Fatherland

Overview

The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ancestors. A shaky road raises thoughts and reminiscences about his days of youth, about the time when he was young and unknown, how he made first steps on his long way of the truth comprehension. He recollects early death and funeral of his mother, the repeated, and not very successful marriage of his father, hatred of stepmother, care of godfather, who gave him the books of Peter the Great, wandering monk, who taught him the fundamentals of science, Latin, and, of course, his first love.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 1, 1980

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Sverdlovsk Film Studio

Cast

Valentina Ananina,Dariya Mikhaylova,Vadim Nikitin,Vladimir Samoylov,Pyotr Velyaminov,Mikhail Zimin,Igor Ledogorov,Viktor Shulgin,Tamara Syomina,Elizaveta Volginaand 2 more

Director

Yaropolk Lapshin

Writer

Eduard Volodarskiy,L. Kozlova,Vladimir Akimov

Producer

Gennady Alekseev

Cinematography

Viktor Osennikov

Music

Yuriy Levitin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0176679