Court of Honor
About Court of Honor
Biochemists Sergey Losev and Aleksandr Dobrotvorsky make a discovery that fights pain. On a trip to the United States they give the results to men they take for colleagues, who are businessmen and spies, and they publish an article on work their team has not finished. Back home they are attacked for it. They answer that science has no borders. Dobrotvorsky's wife is furious at what she calls his ideological immaturity. A court of honor convicts them of cosmopolitanism. Dobrotvorsky repents.
Cast & crew
More about Court of Honor
Abram Room directed Alexander Stein's script. Aleksandr Galperin was the cameraman and Lev Shvarts the composer. Boris Chirkov plays Academician Andrey Vereysky, Nikolai Annenkov plays Dobrotvorsky, and Nikolai Svobodin plays Losev. Release dates on the record are 25 February 1949 and 28 October 1949.
Themes
Background
On 28 March 1947 the Politburo ordered courts of honor in USSR ministries and central agencies. Those boards, used in the campaign against cosmopolitanism, are the setting of the film.
Look
Aleksandr Galperin shot the film at Mosfilm.
Music
Lev Shvarts composed the score.
Notes
- Antonina Maksimova plays Olga and Olga Zhizneva plays Dr. Tatyana Dobrotvorskaya.
- Lidiya Sukharevskaya plays Nina Loseva. Vasili Makarov plays Kirillov and Ivan Pereverzev plays Ivan Petrenko.
- A second date, 28 October 1949, is also attached to the release.
- The Russian title is Sud chesti.
Scenes
- Losev and Dobrotvorsky hand their results to the Americans they think are colleagues.
- Dobrotvorsky's wife turns on him after they return.
- The court of honor convicts them, and Dobrotvorsky repents.
Quotes
Science has no boundaries.
