“ Astronomy Lesson ” is a short popular science film by Semen Reitburth 1974 on the subject of astronomy and human relations. [1] [2]
| Astronomy lesson | |
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| Genre | popular science film |
| Producer | Semen Rytburt |
| Author script | Semen Rytburt |
| In the main cast | Vladimir Gerasimov Tatyana Glebova |
| Operator | Pavel Tartakov |
| Film company | Centernauchfilm |
| Duration | 19 min |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1974 |
Content
Story
The young man and the girl meet in the evening around the fire. The girl asks a question about the starry sky, and a romantic dialogue is started between the interlocutors. She asks: if the universe is infinite, then there should be infinitely many stars in it and then the night sky should be flooded with uniform white light . Why is the sky dark at night? The young man in figurative expressions, poems and quotations of famous scientists ( Giordano Bruno , Albert Einstein , Fritz Houtermans ) tells about the solar system , galaxies , the Universe . The logical conclusion of Burov: “The universe is finite . It ends where the speed of galaxies is close to the speed of light . ” The film ends with the fact that the girl is leaving with her young man, who came after her on a motorcycle.
Cast
- Vladimir Gerasimov - Burov, young man
- Tatyana Glebova - girl
More
- Sound engineer: A. Romanov.
- Artist: Leonid Chibisov .
- Editor: N. Caspe.
- Director of the picture: L. Smirnova.
- The film contains fragments of poems by Mikhail Lomonosov , Konstantin Simonov and Leonid Martynov .
- The film features an Adagio treatment from the oboe and strings concerto in A minor by Alessandro Marcello .