Teens in the Universe
Teens in the Universe (Russian: Отроки во Вселенной, romanized: Otroki vo vselennoy) is a Soviet 1974 science fiction film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak about teens in the universe. Preceded by Moscow-Cassiopeia (first part, 1973).
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| Directed by | Richard Viktorov |
| Written by | Isai Kuznetsov Avenir Zak |
| Starring | Innokenti Smoktunovsky Vasili Merkuryev Lev Durov |
| Distributed by | Gorky Film Studio |
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Running time | 84 min |
| Country | Soviet Union |
Synopsis
The crewmembers of ZARYa starship supposed to mature during 27-year-long flight, appear at the Shedar system after less than one year of local time travel. Remote sensing verifies that one of the planets is very much Earth-like. Three of the crew members should land the new planet. They use the reconnaissance capsule and encounter the apparently abandoned planet. But the "extra" member of the crew Lobanov meets the strange more or less human-like creatures that escort him and his mates to the underground city. They become unreachable for radio communications.
During this link outage orbiting ZARYa rendezvous with another giant spaceship. The commander of that ship explains that their home planet is populated only by the two kinds of bionic robots - executors and far more advanced rulers. These robots were invented two centuries ago, but after some period of good work, rulers tried to improve humans as well as the nature of the planet. Unfortunately, this "improvement" led to the total aloofness of the processed people, including suppression of love and reproductive behaviour. After a century and a half all population of the planet was dead. Only the space radio observatory station crew was unreachable for the robotic "care".
ZARYa crew sets up the second capsule to rescue the crew members captured by robots. Agapit, the son of the station commander, will be their guide in the underground city. After some troubles, boys counterfeit the recharging request from the power plant and burn up all robots at the planet, making it free for the space stationers.
Cast
- Innokenti Smoktunovsky as I.O.O. (Extraordinary Service Executive)
- Vasili Merkuryev as academician Blagovidov
- Lev Durov as academician Filatov
- Yuri Medvedev as academician Ogon-Duganovsky
- Pyotr Merkuryev as academician Kurochkin
- Rodolfo Ranni as Robot 2
Space ship Zarya crew
- Mikhail Yershov as Vitya Sereda
- Aleksandr Grigoryev as Pasha Kozelkov
- Vladimir Savin as Misha Kopanygin
- Vladimir Basov Jr. as Fedya "Lob" Lobanov
- Olga Bityukova as Varya Kuteishchikova
- Nadezhda Ovcharova as Yulia Sorokina
- Irina Popova as Katya Panfyorova
Other cast
- Vadim Ledogorov as Agapit
- Igor Ledogorov as Agapit's father
- Natalya Fateyeva
- Anatoly Adoskin
- Aleksandr Lenkov
- Nikolai Pogodin
- Raisa Ryazanova
- S. Safonov
- Nadezhda Semyontsova
- Vladimir Shiryayev
- Olga Soshnikova
- Aleksandr Vigdorov
- Mikhail Yanushkevich
- Aleksandr Zimin
Awards
- Prize for the Best Film for Kids and Youth of the All-Union Cinema Festival, Kishinev, 1975
- Special prize "Silver Asteroid" of the International Cinema Festival of Science Fiction Films, Triest, 1976
- Grand prize of the International Festival at Panama, 1976
- Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) in the honour of Vasilyev brothers, 1977.
External links
- Teens in the Universe at IMDb
- Teens in the Universe is available for free download at the Internet Archive