Biography of an outstanding person

Can the 20th century fit in one life? And is it possible to bury a person decades after death? The biography of the scientist and pacifist Sergey Chakhotin seems incredible. Its biography is not just exciting, it is quite possible to study the history of the 20th century on it. Sergei Chakhotin was a revolutionary and fought with Bolshevism, developed the method of ultraviolet micro -carcino cell and was fond of Esperanto, participated in the anti -fascist movement in Germany and opposed atomic weapons.

He was obsessed with his ideas and knew how to bring them to life, carrying others along. Sergey Chakhotin was married five times, he had eight sons, and his descendants live in different European countries. Sergei Chakhotin, who died in the year, Boris knew only from the stories. The metaphor of this presence appears in the film unexpectedly for the director himself. Trying to find out where his great-grandfather was buried, Boris Hars-Khotin goes to his grandfather’s native brother, the son of Chakhotin from his second marriage, Eugene.

Instead of taking a young offspring of the Kakhotin clan to the grave of the great -grandfather, Eugene shows him white in the cracks of the urn with the ashes of Sergey Chakhotin. It turns out that Eugene did not dare to bury his father. A variety of reasons prevented this, one more absurd than the other. And the urn remained on the closet in the Parisian apartment of Eugene, to then become the central theme of the film, which is called Sergey in the Urna "" Sergej in Der Urne ", and the binding link of the main character ...

Vekhi of the restless eyelid, what did the German great -grandson say about his Russian great -grandfather?

Chakhotin was born in the year in Istanbul, in the family of the Russian consul. He studied at Moscow University. In the year, Sergey joined the revolutionary student movement, for which he was threatened with a link. He managed to escape by emigrating to Italy. In the revolutionary m Chakhotin again in Russia. Bolshevism does not attract him, consumption collaborates with opponents of the revolution.

Then a new emigration follows. Boris and Evgeny are talking about Urna with the ashes of Sergei Chakhotin photo: Liquid Blues Production in the E-EXTEM, who was a famous scientist-microbiologist, a student of Ivan Pavlov, lectures at Heidelberg University and conducts research on the living cage of ultraviolet radiation, which laid down that laid down The basis of laser surgery used, in particular, in the struggle against cancer.

But science is not the only passion of Sergei Chahotin. It is included in the political struggle in Germany and becomes one of the ideologists of the Iron Front movement, created to combat Nazism. Biology and political propaganda moved Chakhotin not only aversion to the ideas of adherents of National Socialism, but also the conviction that he understands the nature of the mechanisms of influence on the masses.

In this he was helped by the knowledge gained from his teacher, physiologist and psychologist Ivan Pavlov, who, as you know, proved the existence of conditional and unconditional reflexes. Certain signals can cause a predictable reaction not only in animals, but also in people. This is how fascist slogans and symbols act on the masses of people, causing them, sometimes unconscious, delight and enthusiasm, Chakhotin believed.

Therefore, the same methods can also mobilize the opponents of Nazism. It was three parallel arrows with different slogans, for example, "activity, discipline and unity in the struggle against the enemy." They managed to mobilize the opponents of Nazism, but for a very short time. This movement lasted only three years - from a year. The final chord and the unsuccessful "project" for his political activity Sergey Chakhotin was deprived of work at the university and left Germany.

A few years later, he continues to successfully engage in science in France. After the Nazis came to France, he spends for several months in prison. In the postwar years, he continues to engage in science and enters into the struggle against a new global threat - atomic weapons. But in the Soviet reality, the scientist, who has become “disadvantaged”, is very disappointed very soon ...

The full of events, forced or deliberate crossings, ideological struggle and scientific creativity life ... The final chord in the biography of Sergei Chakhotin sounds almost 40 years later, when the intervention of his great-grandson nevertheless forces his son to the pierce with rudder, to bury his father. This strange story shows the back of the life of Chakhotin, whose sons - and four participate in the film - refuse to talk to each other, speak critically, and sometimes with frank resentment.

It seems that of all the projects that were obsessed with chakhotin in his life, the least of all he was a successful of the “Family” project by a demonstration of supporters of the “Iron Front” are you interested in the details of the lives of people who have become a legend? Write to us on Feedback.