Film

Sofia Kovalevskaya

1986 · 3h 32m · Drama · History · TV Movie

IMDb

8.6

A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the first woman to become a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Sofia Kovalevskaya's life was full of complex and dramatic twists and turns. These included a fictitious marriage that allowed her to obtain a higher education abroad; a period when she and her husband embarked on a commercial venture; and, finally, her breakup with him. The film's drama is built on the fact that Sofia Kovalevskaya's grown-up daughter, Fufa, several years after her mother's death, tries to understand who she was not only as a mathematician and public figure, but also simply as a person.

Elena Safonova

Vladimir Letenkov

Aristarkh Livanov

Natalya Sayko

Algimantas Masiulis

Yelena Solovey

Aleksandr Filippenko

Lembit Ulfsak

Stanislav Landgraf

Yuriy Solomin

Petr Shelokhonov

Ivars Kalnins

Nikolay Lavrov

• Ayan ShakhmaliyevaDirector
• Dmitri VasiliuWriter
• Boris DobrodeevWriter
• Sergey YurizditskiyDirector of Photography

Release date

March 12, 1986

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

3h 32m

Genres

Drama, History, TV Movie