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Open Book

Sep 16, 1974 · 3h 6m
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Drama

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The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science...

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CAST

Lyudmila Chursina
Татьяна Петровна Власенкова
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Глафира Сергеевна Рыбакова
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Fyodor Nikitin
Anna Aleksakhina
Igor Dobryakov
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Directed by Vladimir Fetin

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
RU
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Lenfilm
Country
SU

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