Zvorykin-Muromets

Mar 15, 2010

2h 21m

★ 6.0

Overview

Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of modern television changed the history of mankind. The invention has an author, who is almost unknown in his homeland. Vladimir Zworykin, born in Murom, a Russian American, was the person who created distant wireless transmission of images.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Channel One

Red Square

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Cast

Narrator

Leonid Parfyonov

Vladimir Zvorykin

Sergey Shakurov

Vladislav Vetrov

Maxim Radugin

Anatoly Prosalov

Larisa Kuznetsova

Alexander Didenko

Vladimir Malkov

Bronislava Zakharova

Igor Kulachko

Ruslan Sadkovsky

Innokentiy Tarabara

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