Avdotya Pavlovna

Avdotya Pavlovna

1966 · 84 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama

The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.

Directed by Oleksandr Muratov · Written by Oleksandr Muratov

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