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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.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Food supply--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Food supply.
- Scientists--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Scientists.
- Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich), 1887-1943.
- Vavilov, N. I.
- Lysenko, Trofim, 1898-1976.
- Lysenko, Trofim.
- History.
- Soviet Union--Economic conditions--1917-1945.
- Soviet Union.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (55 min.) : digital, sound, black and white
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English and Russian with English subtitles; closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- 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.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- 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.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Hester Wilcox.
- Credits:
- Editing, Véronique Lagoarde-Segot, Frédéric Charcot, Gisèle Rapp-Meichler ; original music composed and interpreted by Kirill Zaborov.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- "Based on an idea by Luc Martin-Gousset"--Closing credits.
- Originally produced by: ARTE France/Point du Jour/Sunset Presse, ©2017.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 21, 2018).
- Publisher Number:
- if-sci Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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