Pavel KLUSHANTSEV Павел КЛУШАНЦЕВ Pavel KLOUCHANTSEV   USSR, 1961, 83 mn  Colour, fiction

Planet of Storms ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Планета бурь    La Planète des tempêtes  Planeta bur

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Plot synopsis

Working from a dullish source - a novel by the Soviet sci-fi eminence Aleksandr Kazantsev - director Klushantsev overpowers the party-line dialogue with excellent effects. Upon arrival to Venus, cosmonauts find furious volcanoes and sundry prehistoric beasts (a cackling, swooping pterodactyl is most memorable). The filmmakers, however, forgot to include scantily clad cavewomen; this omission was quickly corrected by Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Woman (1968); the up-and-coming culprit was Peter Bogdanovich.
Robert Skotak , www.seagullfilms.com

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Arras International Film Festival, Arras (France), 2012

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011

- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2009

- Utopiales : international science fiction festival, Nantes (France), 2006

- Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival : NIFF, Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 2005

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