Soviet scientists weaponize memory itself — and someone finally asks 'should we?'
Research in the field of memory is being conducted under the leadership of Academician Arkhipov. He, like many other thinking people, is not indifferent to the purposes for which scientific discoveries can be used and how modern they are.
Acting
Ivan Solovyov's haunted academician energy
Direction
Tension built through bureaucratic silence
Director
Aleksandr Krivonos
Ivan Solovyov
Иван Архипов
Igor Vasilev
Анатолий Перфильев
Irina Akulova
Лена Вартанян
Kirill Dateshidze
Глеб Гурьянов
Ivan Dmitriev
Аркадий Стекольщиков
Galina Bazhenova
Галина Перфильева
Natalya Orlova
Вера Валентиновна
Nina Mamayeva
Нина Светлова
Sergey Zamorev
Геннадий Калашников
Mikhail Danilov
Виктор Фрайман
Gennadi Lozhkin
Сергей Иванович
Nikolay Karamyshev
Терентьев
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the late Soviet 'glasnost' thaw, this was one of the first films to openly question state-controlled science without hiding behind allegory.
Director Krivonos was a documentary filmmaker; he insisted on shooting real research institutes, giving the lab scenes unsettling authenticity.
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