

Khashaba
Biopic on freestyle wrestler Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, making him the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal at the games.

About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American offers to work abroad, Michurin continues his research in the Russian Empire, despite the fact that his ideas are not perceived by the tsarist government, the church and idealistic science. Michurin is supported by prominent scientists of the country and he continues to work hard. After the October Revolution, a small Michurin garden in the city of Kozlov (the biologist's homeland) becomes a large state nursery.

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin

Terentiy
Kartashov

Khrenov

father Khristofor
Bykov

postman

Ryabov

Sinitsyn

Lesnitskiy
Mayer

Wallace Beard

translator

peasant

selectionist (uncredited)
professor Kigunov (uncredited)
Pashkevich (uncredited)
Pashkevch's wife (uncredited)

Pashkevich's guest (uncredited)


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