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Take Aim

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Take Aim
Russian poster
Directed byIgor Talankin
Written bySolomon Shulman
Daniil Granin
Igor Talankin
StarringSergei Bondarchuk
Georgiy Zhzhonov
Sergei Yursky
Music byAlfred Schnittke
Production
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Release date
  • 1 March 1974 (1974-03-01)
Running time
158 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Take Aim (Russian: Выбор цели, romanizedVybor Tzeli) is a 1974 two-part Soviet biographical drama film directed by Igor Talankin.

Plot

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The film depicts the nuclear arms race that took place between all sides in the World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. The first part centers on the war years, dealing with the Manhattan Project and the American effort to beat the Germans to the bomb, as well as with Stalin's decision that the USSR must have its own atomic project. The second part displays the Soviet post-war nuclear program. The plot deals mainly with the personal dilemmas facing all the scientists who worked on the atomic weapons.

Production

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The film was produced solely by Mosfilm, without a direct participation of DEFA, and yet several East German actors were invited to play the German historical figures. Fritz Diez, who appeared as Hitler on screen for the sixth time in his career, was also given the role of Otto Hahn.[1]

The producers faced a technical difficulty in a scene which contained a nuclear explosion. After several experiments, the special effects coordinator, Samir Jaber - a Syrian citizen who worked for Mosfilm - decided to create the required sequence by trickling a drop of orange-tinted perfume into a watery solution of aniline and filming it close up.[2]

Reception

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The film won the 1975 Kishinev All-Union Film Festival Grand Prize. Talankin received the Silver Pyramide in the 1977 Cairo International Film Festival.[3]

Cast

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