Film

The Luck Meter

2017 · 39m · Documentary

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.

• Dmitry ZavilgelskyDirector · Screenplay
• Olga ShaposhnikovaProducer
• Irina UralskayaDirector of Photography
• Evgeny KadimskyOriginal Music Composer

Release date

October 26, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

39m

Genres

Documentary