Physics at Half Past Nine (1971)
A physicist, a director of popular-science films, and a sports fan talk about the structure of the atom between periods of a hockey game they watch on TV.
Top billed cast
Vsevolod Shestakov
Nelli Pshyonnaya
Leonid Kanevsky
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