Dmitry Zavilgelsky

Измеритель удачи

Dmitry Zavilgelsky

Boris Mirkin

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.

Пропасть. Робот-коллектор

Dmitry Zavilgelsky

New technologies come into our lives sometimes in the most unexpected way. A group of developers of intelligent machines led by the hero of the film Sergey Markov creates robots for calling debtors on bank loans. One day they come up with the idea to teach a robot to speak in the voice of a famous artist who died several decades ago...

В ожидании волн и частиц

Dmitry Zavilgelsky

Three physicists in search of the grail, each - his own. One hopes to find gravitational waves, the other - axions, the third is looking for magnetic monopoles. Each of these waves and particles is predicted by theorists, but whether it exists in nature in reality, no one knows for sure.

День антрополога Дробышевского

Dmitry Zavilgelsky

How is science done? What is behind the scenes of popular lectures and speeches? The film shows three days in the life of the famous popularizer of science Stanislav Drobyshevsky. The film crew visited together with him on archaeological excavations in the village of Khotylevo, Bryansk region, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University at the Department of Anthropology and at the conference "Scientists against Myths".

Шульган-Таш

Dmitry Zavilgelsky

In the 60s of the last century, Soviet archaeologists opened a center of Paleolithic culture in the Southern Urals. Rock paintings of the Kapova Cave became a sensation in the world of science. There are not many places like Kapova Cave on Earth, where the evidence of the life and work of ancient people has been preserved.

Когда-то мы были звездами

Dmitry Zavilgelsky

What makes people so attractive? With its beauty, unknownness, immense distance from the earth? Some have made this interest their profession and have become scientists - astronomers and astrophysicists, others have turned it into a hobby and all the free time from the roofs of houses and even in private observatories watch the starry sky, opening new stars, giving them names. About astronomy, astronomers - professionals and amateurs, tells this film.