Alexander Popov (film)

Alexander Popov
Directed by	Gerbert Rappaport Viktor Eysymont
Written by	Alexander Razumovsky
Starring	Nikolai Cherkasov Yefim Kopelyan Alexander Borisov Bruno Freindlich Yury Tolubeyev Osip Abdulov
Cinematography	Anatoli Nazarov Yevgeni Shapiro
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1949 (1949)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Alexander Popov (Russian: Александр Попов) is a 1949 biographical film about the life and work of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, who was the notable physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of radio communication.

In the process of scientific search the talent and the power of observation of Popov allowed him to complete a number of unique discoveries. The wireless telegraph invented by him was used for the first time in the heaviest conditions of the polar north, for rescuing people, which proved to be themselves on the ice floe in the open ocean...

In 1951 for this film both directors, both operators and main actors (Cherkasov, Skorobogatov, Freindlich, Borisov) received the Stalin Prize of 2nd degree.