Overview
The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biologist scientist-materialist Paul Kammerer (1880-1926), hunted by regressive scientists and Catholic reactionaries who committed suicide.
Director and cast
- Grigoriy Roshal Director
- Bernhard Goetzke as Professor Zange
- Natalya Rozenel as Felitsia, professor's wife
- Elza Temary as Berta, professor's assistant
- Nikolai Khmelyov as Prince Karlstein
- Sergei Komarov as Bsheshinski, Jesuit
- Vladimir Fogel as Baron, reactionary
- Mikhail Doller as Russian student Filonov, professor's assistant
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as Pryer, typographer
- Alexandr Gromov as Shtrombakh
- Anatoli Lunacharsky Cast
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