Film

Ivan Pavlov

1949 · 1h 38m · Drama · History

IMDb

6.1

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

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Nina Alisova

Varvara Antonovna Ivanova

Vladimir Chestnokov

Lev Zakarich Zabelin

Fyodor Nikitin

Gleb Mikhailovich Zvantsev

Vladimir Balashov

Semenov

Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikodin Vasilyevich

Ivan Dmitriev

Dmitri Pavlov

Grigoriy Shpigel

Professor Petrushev

Vasili Sofronov

Arkip Semyonovich Telegin

Grigori Belinnkevich

Sergei Mironovich Kirov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Maxim Gorky

Roman Rubinshteyn

Konstantin Adashevsky

Stepan Lukich

Nikolay Kharitonov

student

Vladimir Kryuger

John Hicks (uncredited)

Vasiliy Maksimov

American Journalist

• Grigoriy RoshalDirector
• Mikhail PapavaScreenplay
• Isaak GoldinExecutive Producer
• Vyacheslav GardanovDirector of Photography
• Eugeny KirpichiovDirector of Photography
• Moisey MagidDirector of Photography
• Lev SokolskyDirector of Photography
• Dmitri KabalevskyOriginal Music Composer
• Valentina MironovaEditor

Release date

February 21, 1949

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama, History