A Long Path on a Short Day

A Long Path on a Short Day

92 mins | Drama | Oct. 16, 1972

Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute engaged in research in the field of nuclear physics, Maxim Nerchin is testing a new research method. And although the method did not justify itself, Nerchin with unreasonable confidence began to build a more powerful installation... He uses almost all the institute's funds to create it and is so sure of success that he loudly announced it at a foreign symposium, thereby causing special attention to his institute on the part of those American circles who are primarily interested in creating weapons that bring death and destruction...

A Long Path on a Short Day

92 mins | Drama | Oct. 16, 1972

A Long Path on a Short Day
Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute engaged in research in the field of nuclear physics, Maxim Nerchin is testing a new research method. And although the method did not justify itself, Nerchin with unreasonable confidence began to build a more powerful installation... He uses almost all the institute's funds to create it and is so sure of success that he loudly announced it at a foreign symposium, thereby causing special attention to his institute on the part of those American circles who are primarily interested in creating weapons that bring death and destruction...
Producers Dovzhenko Film Studios
Original title Длинная дорога в короткий день
Directors Timofei Levchuk
Writers Natan Rybak

Cast

Nikolay Olyalin

as Maxim Nerchin

Tatyana Samoylova

as Yekaterina Zolotarenko

Viktor Khokhryakov

as Shulga

Evgeniy Samoylov

as Mikhail Petrovich

Rodion Alexandrov

as Kutsevich

Leonid Tarabarinov

as Baglai

Igor Dmitriev

as Dolgin

Tatyana Bestayeva

as Zinoviya

Arkadiy Arkadyev

as Skuibeda

Yuri Satarov

as Perederiy

Arkady Troshchanovsky

as Strumilin

Yuri Gavrilyuk

as Miklashevich

Semyon Sokolovsky

as Collins

Yuri Volkov

as Smiles

Fyodor Nikitin

as Thomas

Vladimir Alekseyenko

as male nurse

Aleksandr Gaj

as Harry S. Truman

Valentina Ivashyova

as lady in Switzerland

Nikolai Kryukov

as novosibirsk scientist

Ivan Dmitriev

as Ermolay

Dmytro Myrhorodskyi

as young scientist

Anatoli Pereverzev

as young scientist

Ivan Simonenko

as Rudyy

Kostiantyn Stepankov

as reporter

Nikolai Faleyev

as chairman of the Commission of the security Committee

Viktor Chekmaryov

as accountant

Mariya Shulga

as Nerchin's mother

Marina Yurasova

as Nina Orlova