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8.6 1 Seasons • 12 Episodes

Life and Fate - Season 1

The plot takes place in 1942-1943, during the defense of Stalingrad. The Jew Viktor Strum is a talented nuclear physicist working in one of the country's institutes on the creation of an atomic bomb. At this time, Strum's relatives die in Nazi camps and NKVD dungeons, and persecution begins against him. The inventor can only be saved by his scientific brainchild, which Stalin himself became interested in. The state needs such a powerful weapon as an atomic bomb. The scientist has to make a choice: to remain faithful to science and work for the "leader of the nation" or to abandon his vocation and be destroyed.

Top Cast

  • Sergey Makovetskiy

    Sergey Makovetskiy

    Shtrum

  • Anna Mikhalkova

    Anna Mikhalkova

    Marya Ivanovna Sokolova

  • Aleksandr Baluev

    Aleksandr Baluev

    Krymov

  • Anton Kuznetsov

    Anton Kuznetsov

    Ivan Berezkin

  • Lika Nifontova

    Lika Nifontova

    Lyudmila

  • Evgeniy Dyatlov

    Evgeniy Dyatlov

    Novikov

  • Sergey Puskepalis

    Sergey Puskepalis

  • Aleksandr Nikolskiy

    Aleksandr Nikolskiy

  • Polina Agureeva

    Polina Agureeva

    Evgenia Shaposhnikova

Overview

The plot takes place in 1942-1943, during the defense of Stalingrad. The Jew Viktor Strum is a talented nuclear physicist working in one of the country's institutes on the creation of an atomic bomb. At this time, Strum's relatives die in Nazi camps and NKVD dungeons, and persecution begins against him. The inventor can only be saved by his scientific brainchild, which Stalin himself became interested in. The state needs such a powerful weapon as an atomic bomb. The scientist has to make a choice: to remain faithful to science and work for the "leader of the nation" or to abandon his vocation and be destroyed.

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