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Failure of Engineer Garin

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Failure of Engineer Garin
Крах инженера Гарина
Written bySergei Potepalov
Directed byLeonid Kvinikhidze
StarringOleg Borisov
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Music by
Country of originSoviet Union
Original languageRussian
Production
CinematographyVyacheslav Fastovich
EditorAlexandra Borovskaya
Running time247 minutes
Production companyLenfilm
Original release
Release1973 (1973)

Failure of Engineer Garin (Russian: Крах инженера Гарина, translit. Krakh inzhenera Garina) is a 1973 Soviet television film in four parts loosely based on a novel Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Alexei Tolstoy. Produced by Lenfilm by the order of Gosteleradio of USSR

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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.

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