Failure of Engineer Garin is a 1973

1973 in film

The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

 Soviet television film in four parts loosely based on a novel Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin («Гиперболоид инженера Гарина») by Alexei Tolstoy

Alexei Tolstoy

Alexei Tolstoy may refer to:* Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, novelist and playwright* Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, , Russian writer and playwright who specialized in science fiction and historical novels...

. Directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze, script written by Sergei Potepalov. Produced by Lenfilm

Lenfilm

Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners, and several private film studios,...

 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
  Oleg Borisov
  Oleg Ivanovich Borisov was a Russian film and theatre actor whose honors included the title of People's Artist of the USSR , two USSR State Prizes as well as the Volpi Cup .-Childhood and Youth:...
  
   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
  Algimantas Masiulis
  Algimantas Masiulis was a Lithuanian film and theater actor.Masiulis appeared in his first play in the autumn of 1948, in Schoolgirl, where he played the role of a gym student. The play was directed by his teacher, Juozas Miltinis. Over the course of his career, Masiulis portrayed over 90 characters...
  
   as Sсhtufen
• Ivan Kuznetsov
• Valentin Nikulin as Portier
• Yefim Kopelyan
  Yefim Kopelyan
  Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama . He performed the bright characteristic roles in the films The Elusive Avengers, Intervention, Eternal call, Straw cap, read author's text in the television series...
  
   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