In a compartment of the Moscow-Novosibirsk train, a young physicist meets famous film actors. The conversation accidentally comes to Einstein, and the woman begins to explain to her fellow travelers what the theory of relativity is. The actors are incidentally on their way to the shooting of a film about physicists, but they do not understand the subject at all.
Acting
Demidova's patient scientist vs. delightfully clueless Soviet stars
Direction
Raytburt squeezes genuine charm from a single train compartment
Director
Semyon Raytburt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Demidova was already a rising star at Moscow's Lenkom Theatre; this short captures her before she became one of Soviet cinema's most formidable actresses.
Made during Khrushchev's Thaw, this educational short reflects the era's optimistic push to democratize complex science for 'the people'—via celebrity, naturally.
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