Atomists

The film is dedicated to scientists and physicists of European countries, the USA, Russia, scientific developments and discoveries in the field of nuclear physics. The action of the film is based on the understanding of historical events and scientific discoveries by students of secondary schools. PART ONE Press conference of the American scientist hematologist, Dr. Robert Peter Gale, dedicated to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (synchronously and behind the scenes). PART TWO Portraits of V.I. Vernadsky, Ya.I. Frenkel on the monitor screen. The building of the Crimean, former Tauride, University, founded by V.I. Vernadsky. Monument to Peter I "The Bronze Horseman" in Leningrad. Chronicle footage. AF Ioffe in the laboratory of the Physico-Technical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Test flight of the airship. USA, 1945. New York City. Circus performance, aerial gymnast performance on a city street. July 16, 1945. State of New Mexico. Tests of the first atomic bomb, President G. Trumen at the ceremony dedicated to the tests. PART THREE Document of the American intelligence mission "Alsos" on the progress of work on the uranium project in Germany. The content of the document is commented on by TV journalist A.G. Lysenko (synchronously and behind the scenes). Portraits of physicists Ya.B. Zeldovich and Yu.B. Khariton on the monitor screen. The learned physicist N.N. Semyonov also tells Ya.B. Zeldovich. Chronicle footage. Italian scientist, nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi in the laboratory. Italian scientist, nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo with chalk in his hand at the blackboard. A. Hitler makes a speech, raises his hand in a fascist greeting. Locusts over the field, eating the leaves of the trees. Ocean landscape. Dancing couple on the background of the ocean landscape. Germany. The territory of a secret facility with a barbed wire fence. Armed guards at the observation tower. The checkpoint, armed guards on a bonet-carrier, the employees of the facility are passing by. A board with the inscription "Everything that you saw, everything that you heard, everything that you did here, when you leave, leave it here." Scientists are working in the laboratory. Statue of Liberty in New York. Russia, 1920s. There is a street child with a cigarette in his mouth. A freight train is passing by, loaders are unloading wagons. Italy, [1922-1943]. Military parade of the Italian army. B. Mussolini is surrounded by his retinue. 1941 year. American flag over the US naval base in the Pacific Ocean. Footage of the Japanese air raid on the US naval base Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Moscow, 1941. Sound detector on the roof of the house. An observer soldier looks into the sky through binoculars, standing at the Maxim machine gun. Stalingrad, summer 1942. Soviet bombers "PE-2" are dropping bombs on enemy positions. Explosions of bombs. Howitzers are shooting. Chronicle footage dedicated to the International Conference of the Heads of Government of the USSR, USA, Great Britain in Potsdam (July 17 - August 2, 1945). PART FOUR Demonstration of the cyclotron, illustrated with animation footage. TV journalist A.G. Lysenko talks about how Academician I.V. Kurchatov worked on the creation of a cyclotron (synchronously and behind the scenes). Portraits of physicists L.A. Artsimovich, I.K. Kikoin, A.P. Aleksandrov, A.I. Alikhanov on the monitor screen. Chronicle footage. The scientist physicist A.I. Leipunsky writes with chalk on a blackboard. Russia, Leningrad, 1933. The meeting of the international conference on the physics of the atomic nucleus, F. Joliot (Joliot-Curie) speaks, among those present - A.F. Ioffe, A.P. Karpinsky, I.V. Kurchatov. 1934 year. Physicists of the Leningrad Physics and Technology Institute from the laboratory of IV Kurchatov are conducting an experiment. Denmark, 1940s. Copenhagen view at night. Ukraine, 1943. The dilapidated building of the Physico-Technical Institute in Kharkov. Japan, Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. The aftermath of a nuclear bombardment: smoking buildings, debris, the dead. PART FIVE The text of the document of the US Chiefs of Staff of November 1945, according to which it was planned to subject the 20 largest cities of the USSR to atomic bombing, with a list of cities attached. Physicists A.K. Kondratyev and B.K. Dubovsky share memories of the events associated with the launch of a nuclear reactor on August 26, 1949 (synchronously). Chronicle footage of the Second World War: killed soldiers on the battlefield, broken equipment, a destroyed city, a scarecrow depicting a German soldier with a cross (award) in the field. Russia, [1945-1946]. People harnessed to the plow plow the land. Schoolchildren in class in a dilapidated school building. Teenagers are working on building a house. An equestrian statue is being carried along the streets of Leningrad. Museum workers unpack and wash sculptures. Chronicle footage. The explosion of the atomic bomb (atomic mushroom). Russia, 1940. Physicists K.A. Petrzhak and G.N. Flerov work in the laboratory. USA. The White House building in Washington DC. Fulton, March 5, 1946. Solemn meeting of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain W. Churchill, President G. Trumen on the podium and in the car next to Churchill. Germany, the city of Potsdam, summer 1945. Potsdam (Berlin Conference). The heads of state of the USSR, USA, Great Britain - J.V. Stalin, W. Churchill, G. Trumen - shake hands, take pictures. Russia, 1965. Physicists K.A. Petrzhak and G.N. Flerov talk about I.V. Kurchatov (synchronously). PART SIX Chronicle footage dedicated to the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Photo of the American scientist, atomic physicist E. Teller. Foreign chronicle. Antiwar demonstration in one of the cities. The police disperse the demonstrators. Blood on the pavement. People are signing the appeal of the Standing Committee of the World Peace Congress. The texts of the documents of the US War Department - the military plan "Dropshot" of 1949 and the draft plan for the war with the USSR in 1957. Footage of the chronicle. Rocket flight. Great Britain, near Oxford, 1956. I.V. Kurchatov's visit to Harwell - the Center for scientific research in the field of atomic energy. M. Sklodovskaya-Curie at work in the laboratory, during the award ceremony (parts 2.6). Albert Einstein at the writing table, on the deck of the ship (parts 2.3). Stills of the chronicle dedicated to Robert Oppenheimer (parts 2.4). Germany, Berlin, 1936. Summer Olympic Games opening (parts 4,5).

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Y. Kholin (artist), I. Zakrochinskaya (animator), D. Smirnov (composer)