Life and Fate
S01E03: Episode 3
Overview
The plot takes place in 1942-1943, during the defense of Stalingrad. The Jew Viktor Strum is a talented nuclear physicist working in one of the country's institutes on the creation of an atomic bomb. At this time, Strum's relatives die in Nazi camps and NKVD dungeons, and persecution begins against him. The inventor can only be saved by his scientific brainchild, which Stalin himself became interested in. The state needs such a powerful weapon as an atomic bomb. The scientist has to make a choice: to remain faithful to science and work for the "leader of the nation" or to abandon his vocation and be destroyed.
Episodes
Cast
Sergey Makovetskiy
Shtrum
Anna Mikhalkova
Marya Ivanovna Sokolova
Aleksandr Baluev
Krymov
Anton Kuznetsov
Ivan Berezkin
Lika Nifontova
Lyudmila
Evgeniy Dyatlov
Novikov
Sergey Puskepalis
Aleksandr Nikolskiy
Polina Agureeva
Evgenia Shaposhnikova
Aleksandr Pal
Vladimir Sidorov
Хромов - старшина
