Nine Days in One Year

Nine Days in One Year (Russian: Девять дней одного года) is a 1962 Soviet black and white drama film directed by Mikhail Romm about nuclear particle physics, Soviet scientists (physicists) and their relationship. The film won the Crystal Globe Award in 1962. Two young physicists, afflicted experimenter Dmitri Gusev (Batalov) and sceptical physicist-theorist Ilya Kulikov (Smoktunovsky) carry out nuclear researches in the siberian research institut... more

Nine Days in One Year (Russian: Девять дней одного года) is a 1962 Soviet black and white drama film directed by Mikhail Romm about nuclear particle physics, Soviet scientists (physicists) and their relationship. The film won the Crystal Globe Award in 1962. Two young physicists, afflicted experimenter Dmitri Gusev (Batalov) and sceptical physicist-theorist Ilya Kulikov (Smoktunovsky) carry out nuclear researches in the siberian research institute. Dmitri heads the researches begun by his teacher Sintsov which as a result of experiment has received a deadly dose of radiation. Gusev is irradiated also. Doctors warn that any more radiation will kill him. At that time between his friend Ilya and Lyolya, loved Dmitri, established romantic relations. The enamoured prepare for wedding and search for possibility to inform it to Dmitri. At a meeting Dmitri guesses about it, having received Lyolya and Ilya coldly. At Lyolya's heart play self-contradictions, she tries to find out his true... less