A Beginner's Guide to Soviet Sci-Fi Cinema
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- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsNatalya BondarchukDonatas BanionisJüri JärvetA psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyNikolai TsereteliEngineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsPorfiri PodobedVsevolod PudovkinSergey KomarovIn a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
- DirectorAleksandr AndriyevskyStarsSergei VecheslovVladimir GardinMariya VolginaIn an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his invention co-opted by the military-industrial complex.
- DirectorVasily ZhuravlyovStarsSergey KomarovKsenia MoskalenkoVassili GaponenkoIn 1946, the Soviet space program is undergoing turmoil. Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first manned exploration to the moon, is denounced by his rival Professor Karin as being too old and too mentally unstable for the mission. Professor Sedikh, aided by his assistant Marina and a youth named Andryusha, disregard Prof. Karin's authority and make a successful landing on the moon. Although a few problems occur at the moon, including the discovery of a damaged oxygen tank and Professor Sedikh's becoming trapped under a fallen boulder, the expedition is a success and the cosmonauts return to Moscow.
- DirectorPavel KlushantsevStarsGeorgi SolovyovLeonid KhmaraGeorgi KulbushA groundbreaking popular science fiction film about the past and future of astronautics, from the first experiments by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky to the manned spaceflight and colonization of the Moon.
- DirectorPavel KlushantsevStarsVladimir EmelyanovGeorgi ZhzhyonovGennadi VernovCosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it.
- DirectorPavel KlushantsevStory of the Moon told by scientists. The prospects of the Moon's future exploration by humans with elements of science fiction dramatization by actors in the final part of the film.
- DirectorPavel KlushantsevIn the movie it is told (on the basis of scientific these 1960th years) about physical conditions on the planet Mars, a possibility of life and hypothetical forms of vegetation on her, about "canals" and "seas" of the red planet. The director has tried to recreate environment of one of the most mysterious planet of solar system.
- DirectorViktor MorgensternStarsPavel MakhotinVladimir EmelyanovGeorgiy ShamshurinThe first manned trip to the space is - of course - a big success of a soviet science. The movie shows in detail the tremendous work with the preparation of the flight. In the key scene of the film the astronaut Andrei must make a difficult choice. Will he go home from the space and leave the robotic probe packed with priceless information behind or send the probe to Earth and thus sacrifice his own life on altar of the scientific progress of the mankind?
- DirectorMikhail KaryukovAleksandr KozyrFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsIvan PereverzevAleksandr ShvorinKonstantin BartashevichTwo countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
- DirectorVladimir ChebotaryovGennadiy KazanskiyStarsVladimir KorenevAnastasiya VertinskayaMikhail KozakovPeople living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiandr can live underwater. This gives him certain advantages, but creates a lot of problems.
- DirectorMikhail KaryukovOtar KoberidzeStarsLarisa GordeychikBoris BorisyonokOtar KoberidzeA rocket from a distant planet approaching Earth must land on Mars due to a technical defect, thus the inhabitants of the Earth rush to their help.
- DirectorEvgeniy SherstobitovStarsVija ArtmaneSergey StolyarovNikolai KryukovA spaceship from Earth is trapped on the unknown planet. Based on book "Tumannost Andromedy" by Ivan Efremov.
- DirectorIrina PovolotskayaMikhail SadkovichStarsLev KruglyyTatyana LavrovaIrakli UchaneishviliIn the Taiga a very strange phenomenon forms - a wall in the form of a dome about two kilometers in diameter that appears with a certain periodicity, and presumably constitutes a powerful electrostatic charge.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy YakovlevLeonid KuravlyovAleksandr DemyanenkoAn ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
- DirectorRichard ViktorovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyVasiliy MerkurevLev DurovSeveral children go to a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.
- DirectorRichard ViktorovStarsMisha YershovAleksandr GrigoryevVladimir SavinContinuation of the film "Moscow-Cassiopea": cosmonauts-schoolchildren fly to an extraterrestrial civilization in distress.
- DirectorMarek PiestrakStarsSergei DesnitskyBoleslaw AbartVladimir IvashovHumanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.
- DirectorGrigori KromanovStarsUldis PucitisJüri JärvetLembit PetersonPolice gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen.
- DirectorRichard ViktorovNikolay ViktorovStarsYelena MetyolkinaNadezhda SementsovaVadim LedogorovA female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsStanislav LyubshinEvgeniy LeonovYuriy YakovlevTwo Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsRolan BykovIosif RyklinViktor MikhaylovIn the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
- DirectorPeter FleischmannStarsEdward ZentaraAleksandr FilippenkoHugues QuesterAnother planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
- DirectorYuriy MorozStarsSergey ZhigunovMarina LevtovaNikolay KarachentsovAn interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.
- DirectorNikolay KhodataevZenon KomissarenkoYoury MerkulovA tale about Comrade Kominternov, the Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet. The film is a parody on the famous SF film "Aelita" from the same year.
- DirectorValentina BrumbergZinaida BrumbergMikhail YanshinStarsVera BendinaEvgeniya MoresValentina SperantovaA schoolboy accidentally flies to the moon with a space expedition.
- DirectorVasiliy LivanovStarsYuriy YakovlevMariya BabanovaNikolay BurlyaevToo many myths and too few facts.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovStarsMariya VinogradovaLev LyubetskiyIn 10 minutes you find out about Universe more than in 11 years in school.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovA man walking on the fields encounters a shapeshifting alien visitor from outer space.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovStarsViktor BalashovAleksandr KaydanovskiyVasiliy LivanovScience fiction parable about deep connection between Univers and Earth, human and his native land.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovStarsAleksandr KaydanovskiyEvgeniy SteblovBoris IvanovBearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy psychos.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovStarsAleksandr KaydanovskiyVasiliy LivanovAleksandr PashutinPeople survive on an alien planet in the hope of returning to Earth. Fantastic cartoon based on Kir Bulychyov's novel.
- DirectorAnatoliy PetrovStarsAleksandr BelyavskiyAnatoliy KuznetsovSergey MartynovA military scientist creates a mind-reading weapon for his generals on a remote island. After the demonstration, the generals are pleased. Little do they realize, both the weapon, and the creator of the weapon have a mind of their own.
- DirectorRoman KachanovGlenn StantonStarsOlga GromovaVsevolod LarionovYuriy VolyntsevZoologist professor Steel, his small daughter Christine and captain Green leave Earth in search for rare space animals. The journey turns into adventurous and dangerous mission involving space pirates and a missing captain of a ship.
- DirectorLev ShukalyukovAbout the Alien from distant worlds.
- DirectorNazim TulyahodzhayevStarsAleksandr LenkovAnimated Film based on Ray Bradbury's novel "The Martian Chronicles", on the short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains..."
- DirectorMikhail TitovAn alien comes to Earth and takes on the appearance of an earthling to talk to people personally and find out if they believe in the possibility of meeting with extraterrestrial life forms.
- DirectorMikhail TitovA man kills a toy designer and steals his latest product. The product, a mini-army complete with weapons, then wages war on the killer.
- DirectorRobert SahakyantsA Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions.