Sofya Kovalevskaya
Biography
A screen adaptation of a play about the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, who became a laureate of the Borden Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences and was the first woman corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sci...
Director
Iosif Shapiro
Writers
Nikolai Akimov, Iosif Shapiro, Leonid Tur
Stars
Yelena Yunger, Lev Kolesov, Tatyana Sezenyovskaya
Language
Russian
Country
Soviet Union
🎭 Top Cast
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Yelena Yunger
as Sofya Kovalevskaya
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Lev Kolesov
as Vladimir Kovalevsky
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Tatyana Sezenyovskaya
as Anna, Sofya's sister
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Aron Podgur
as Ardatov
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Vladimir Uskov
as Academician Levkoev
Bruno Frejndlikh
as Klaus fon Shvedlits
Aleksandr Zhukov
as His Excellency
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Pavel Sukhanov
as Fedul Semyonovich Pigalkin
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Zinaida Afanasenko
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Gleb Florinskiy
as General Korvin-Krukovsky
🎬 Technical Specs
Color
Black and White
Production
Lenfilm Studio
🏷️ Keywords
female scientistdiscriminationmathematician1880syear 1888
🎯 Categories
RussianBiography
📖 Synopsis
A screen adaptation of a play about the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, who became a laureate of the Borden Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences and was the first woman corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sci...