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The scientist, the imposter & Stalin : how to feed the people
Title
The scientist, the imposter & Stalin : how to feed the people / ARTE France, Point du Jour, Sunset Presse present ; a film by Gulya Mirzoeva ; produced by Vladimir Donn.
Publication
[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2018]
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (55 min.) : digital, sound, black and white
Local Notes
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Notes
"Based on an idea by Luc Martin-Gousset"--Closing credits.
Originally produced by: ARTE France/Point du Jour/Sunset Presse, ©2017.
Title from title frames.
Editing, Véronique Lagoarde-Segot, Frédéric Charcot, Gisèle Rapp-Meichler ; original music composed and interpreted by Kirill Zaborov.
In English and Russian with English subtitles; closed captioning available.
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 21, 2018).
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Summary
A story about two very different men: one of them, Nikolai Vavilov, was a botanical genius who travelled the world, accumulating a vast wealth of biodiversity. The other, Trofim Lyssenko, was a talented agronomist who claimed he was able to increase crop-yields through his pseudo inventions. In the burgeoning Soviet Union of the 1920s, prey to famine, they would each attempt, in their own way, to solve the problem which haunted the communist authorities: how to feed the people. The genius would die of hunger in a Stalinist prison, the charlatan ended up as president of the academy of sciences.
Variant and related titles
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Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Russian
Added to Catalog
October 30, 2018
Credits
Editing, Véronique Lagoarde-Segot, Frédéric Charcot, Gisèle Rapp-Meichler ; original music composed and interpreted by Kirill Zaborov.
Performers
Narrated by Hester Wilcox.
System details note
System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
Videorecording number
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Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
ARTE France, production company.
Icarus Films, distributor.
Point du Jour (Firm), production company.
Sunset Presse, production company.
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