Nine Days of One Year
Девять дней одного года (original)
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Starring Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai Plotnikov, Sergei Blinnikov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Valentin Nikulin, Pavel Shpringfeld, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
Watch "Nine Days of One Year" on Criterion Channel released in 1962. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.