Baltic Deputy(1937)

Baltic Deputy is a Soviet biographical film about Klement Timiriazev, a renowned Russian scientist who studied and taught at Cambridge and Oxford before returning home. After the Revolution, Timiriazev became one of the few prominent scientists to publicly support the Bolsheviks, earning him election as a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by Baltic Fleet sailors. The film follows his efforts to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the new Soviet state, as he pressures fellow researchers to contribute their expertise to the revolutionary cause. Timiriazev's conviction that science and socialism must work together forms the dramatic core of this portrait of intellectual commitment during a transformative historical moment.