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A film about the work of surgeons and scientists to create an artificial heart. 1 hour - Evening streets of Moscow. Hospital lobby. Operation in the operating room. Professor Shumakov is speaking. Beating heart. B. V. Petrovsky is performing an operation. He's among scientists. Details of an artificial heart. Design Bureau of the Institute for Organ and Tissue Transplantation. Artificial heart testing laboratory. An artificial heart works. Researcher for the assembly of the heart. Photos of doctors. Heart surgery. Blood under a microscope. An artificial heart works. A motor ship is sailing along the Moscow River. The leaders of the party and government of the USSR and US representatives at the signing ceremony for the development of an artificial heart. Signed by the ministers of health of the USSR and the USA. Soviet and American scientists. V.I.Shumakov is performing an operation. Landscape with rain. Scientists are watching experimental animals. Photo by Dr. Bernard. 2 hours - V.I.Shumakov is performing an operation. Laboratory: work of an artificial heart; devices. Doctors play chess. Shumakov in his office talking with correspondents, talking on the phone. A group of doctors in the operating room, near the calf. Cameraman. Moscow at night. Maternity hospital building; nursing mother.

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1977