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The Luck Meter

The Luck Meter

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 26, 2017

Runtime

0h 39m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Измеритель удачи

Production Companies

Risk Film and Video Studio

Director

Dmitry Zavilgelsky

Description

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.