Richard VIKTOROV
Ричард ВИКТОРОВ
Richard VIKTOROV
USSR, 1980, 146mn 
Colour, fiction
To the Stars by Hard Ways
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Через тернии к звездам

 

 L'Epineux chemin des étoiles

 Cherez ternii k zvezdam

 
Directed by : Richard VIKTOROV (Ричард ВИКТОРОВ)
Writing credits : Kir BULYCHYOV (Кир БУЛЫЧЕВ), Richard VIKTOROV (Ричард ВИКТОРОВ)
 
Cast
Vatslav DVORZHETSKY (Вацлав ДВОРЖЕЦКИЙ)
Yelena FADEYEVA (Елена ФАДЕЕВА) ...Neeïa
Igor LEDOGOROV (Игорь ЛЕДОГОРОВ)
Uldis LIELDIDZ (Улдис ЛИЕЛДИДЖ)
Yelena METELKINA (Елена МЕТЕЛКИНА)
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr RYBIN (Александр РЫБИН)
Production design : Konstantin ZAGORSKY (Константин ЗАГОРСКИЙ)
Sound : Boris KORESHOV (Борис КОРЕШКОВ)
Production : Gorky Film Studio
Restauration : 2001
 

Plot synopsis
Boldly going where no man has gone before, the starship Pushkin finds an abandoned vessel in deep space filled with the decaying bodies of humanoids. There is, however, one surviving member of the crew, a gynoid named Niya who seeks the help of earthlings to restore her now severely polluted home planet of Dessa to its natural splendor. Pitched exclusively to a teenage audience and unashamed of it, this delirious space adventure features bionic women, cosmic mercenaries, and the most embarrassing guy-in-a-suit robot to never utter "Danger, Will Robinson." After the fall of the USSR, it inevitably became a cult hit among the Russian hipster set. In 2001, under the supervision of the director's son, the film enjoyed a full recreation and saved from nearly being lost.
Robert Skotak , www.seagullfilms.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les treize plus grands films soviétiques et russes sur l’espace, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Ces navettes spatiales soviétiques et russes «conçues» par les cinéastes, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Festival Fantasia, Montreal (Canada), 2007