Smoke of the Fatherland

Smoke of the Fatherland

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 1, 1980

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

History

User Score

60%

Original Title

Дым Отечества

Production Companies

Sverdlovsk Film Studio

Director

Yaropolk Lapshin

Description

The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ancestors. A shaky road raises thoughts and reminiscences about his days of youth, about the time when he was young and unknown, how he made first steps on his long way of the truth comprehension. He recollects early death and funeral of his mother, the repeated, and not very successful marriage of his father, hatred of stepmother, care of godfather, who gave him the books of Peter the Great, wandering monk, who taught him the fundamentals of science, Latin, and, of course, his first love.