Starring Grigorii Belov, Aleksandra Vasilieva, Fedor Grigoriev. Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Description: Dovzhenko labored hard to make his movie into a tribute to nature, but censorship and the ideological needs of the Lysenko clique made this impossible. Michurin became in the movie a mouthpiece for Russian nationalism, vernalization, and the triumph of Soviet science. Here he shares his slow process of discovery with his long-suffering wife.