Baltic Deputy (1937)

4.6/10 107 min Drama

Overview

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.

Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov

Boris Livanov

Mikhail Bocharov

Oleg Zhakov

Aleksandr Melnikov

Fyodor Kurikhin

Stepan Kayukov

Mykola Nademskyi

Aleksei Matov

Aleksey Mikhaylovich

Lev Krovitskiy

Newspaper editor (uncredited)

David Gutman

Professor of medicine

Nikolay Urvantsov

Professor

Anna Zarzhitskaya

Stenographer

Aleksandr Chekayevsky

Sailor with the telegraph (uncredited)

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