Failure of Engineer Garin

Failure of Engineer Garin (Крах инженера Гарина)
Directed by	Leonid Kvinikhidze
Starring	Oleg Borisov Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Music by	Vladislav Uspenskiy
Cinematography	Vyacheslav Fastovich
Studio	Lenfilm
Release date(s)	1973
Running time	247 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Failure of Engineer Garin (Russian: Крах инженера Гарина, translit. Krakh inzhenera Garina) is a 1973 Soviet television film in four parts loosely based on a novel Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin («Гиперболоид инженера Гарина») by Alexei Tolstoy. Directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze, script written by Sergei Potepalov. Produced by Lenfilm by the order of Gosteleradio of USSR. Total runtime - 247 min. Editing by Alexandra Borovskaya, cinematography by Vyacheslav Fastovich. Original music score by Vladislav Uspenskiy, conductor - Yuri Serebryakov. Sound design by Galina Gorbonosova. Stage producer - Boris Bykov.

Plot summary

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target on practically any distance. Staging his death he emigrates from Russia as a French merchant and tries to find contacts with the head of one of the largest financial trusts in Europe, Mr. Rolling. The final goal of Garin is to rule the world...

Cast

• Oleg Borisov as Pyotr Garin
• Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Vasili Shelga
• Vasili Korzun as Rolling
• Nonna Terentyeva as Zoe Montrose
• Vladimir Tatosov as Tyklinski
• Mikhail Volkov as Sсhefer
• Alexander Kaidanovsky as Dr. Wolf
• Grigori Gaj as Reicher
• Anatoli Shvedersky as Ditz
• Algimantas Masiulis as Sсhtufen
• Ivan Kuznetsov
• Valentin Nikulin as Portier
• Yefim Kopelyan as Gaston, the 'Duck nose'
• Vitali Yushkov as Arnoud
• Gediminas Karka
• Sergei Svistunov
• Vladimr Kostin as Investigator
• Ernst Romanov as Khlynov
• Gennady Saifulin as Victor Lenoir

External links

• Failure of Engineer Garin at the Internet Movie Database