Kosmikino: Soviet Era Russian And Eastern European Science-Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Cinema
Fantastic and phantasmagorical science-fiction, fantasy, horror, fairy-tales, surreal cinema and television from Russia and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the 'Soviet' and 'Eastern Bloc' era of global geo-politics, covering the period of 1924-1991.
We are often given the impression that films like 'Stalker' and 'Solaris' are the few exceptions to the steady diet of communist 'propaganda', film and television makers were compelled to produce; yet the vast majority of these films are completely at odds with this belief.
This is an entire cinematic universe waiting to be discovered and it has hardly begun to be coherently mapped out in the English speaking world (though there are a number of books and articles on the net if you dig deep enough) and this is one basic attempt to gather some raw data:
Any recommendations via email are very much welcome, particularly the more obscure films and television programmes that have yet to be translated.
Likewise, if you are from one of these countries and are interested in helping to translate any of these films into English, please get in touch as many of these deserve a far wider audience than they currently enjoy.
I am more than happy to go through the process of translating and making subtitles and give you all the help my time will allow: so no experience is needed, just a lot of time, effort and love for these films.
kosmikino@gmail.com
http://kosmikino.blogspot.co.uk
We are often given the impression that films like 'Stalker' and 'Solaris' are the few exceptions to the steady diet of communist 'propaganda', film and television makers were compelled to produce; yet the vast majority of these films are completely at odds with this belief.
This is an entire cinematic universe waiting to be discovered and it has hardly begun to be coherently mapped out in the English speaking world (though there are a number of books and articles on the net if you dig deep enough) and this is one basic attempt to gather some raw data:
Any recommendations via email are very much welcome, particularly the more obscure films and television programmes that have yet to be translated.
Likewise, if you are from one of these countries and are interested in helping to translate any of these films into English, please get in touch as many of these deserve a far wider audience than they currently enjoy.
I am more than happy to go through the process of translating and making subtitles and give you all the help my time will allow: so no experience is needed, just a lot of time, effort and love for these films.
kosmikino@gmail.com
http://kosmikino.blogspot.co.uk
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- 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.This is called the first Soviet science fiction film because of its "futuristic" sets on Mars, although most of it takes place in Moscow. The movie is set at the beginning of the NEP (New Economic Policy) in December, 1921. A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers who receive it are Los, the hero, and his colleague Spiridonov. Los is an individualist dreamer. Aelita is the daughter of Tuskub, the ruler of a totalitarian state on Mars in which the working classe are put into cold storage when they are not needed. With a telescope, Aelita is able to watch Los. As if by telepathy, Los obsesses about being watched by her. After some hugger-mugger involving the murder of his wife and a pursuing detective, Los takes the identity of Spiridonov and builds a spaceship. With the revolutionary Gusev, he travels to Mars, but the Earthlings and Aelita are thrown into prison by the dictator. Gusev and Los begin a proletarian uprising, and Aelita offers to lead the revolution, but she then establishes her own totalitarian regime. Los is shocked by this development and attempts to stop Aelita, and then reality and fantasy become confused, and Los discovers what has really happened. Written by Fiona Kelleghan <fkelleghan@aol.com>
- 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.
- DirectorAndrei YermashStarsVladimir GostyukhinVasiliy LivanovYuriy SolominAfter a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?
- StarsNatalya GusevaAleksei FomkinIlya NaumovA schoolboy finds a time machine and he helps Alisa, a scientist of the future, to save a mind-reading device from space pirates. Chased by the pirates and followed by Alisa he saves the device and takes it back to his own time.
- DirectorPavel ArsenovStarsNatalya GusevaAleksandr GusevVyacheslav NevinnyyAlisa, her father, and archaeologist Gromozeka discover an extinct alien civilization wiped out by a hostility virus they left on Earth 26,000 years ago. To stop it, they time travel to that era where magic coexisted with humans.
- DirectorMikhail ShvejtserStarsDonatas BanionisZhanna BolotovaAngelina StepanovaA science fiction fantasy about a guy who decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert.. He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?.
- 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.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsMikhail BoldumanSofiya PilyavskayaValentina UshakovaAn American scientist invents a new weapon of mass destruction - silver dust. Corporate war breaks out between two military industry giants to own the weapon. The scientist dies and his son makes the discovery public with more consequences.
- 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?
- StarsOleg BorisovNonna TerentyevaAleksandr BelyavskiyA Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.
- DirectorBudimir MetalnikovStarsSergey BondarchukZhanna BolotovaIrina SkobtsevaA plane crashes over the Atlantic. Aliens save passengers and come into contact with one of the rescued scientists, Martin Evans.
- DirectorValentin SelivanovStarsLudmila BerlinskayaSergey ObrazovIgor SakharovThree teens are selected for a space flight on the spacecraft Astra. The children are subjected to crises and breakdowns, they have to deal with all sort of problems in outer space.
- DirectorIgor VoznesenskyStarsGerman PoloskovAleksandr YakovlevIrina AzerA giant manta ray starts sending messages in an attempt to communicate with the deep ocean lab aquanauts acquiring, as it seems, the mind of a late human.
- DirectorAndrei YermashStarsOleg VavilovVera SotnikovaGeorgi ZhzhyonovBased on the novel by Isaac Asimov.The End of Eternity is a science fiction film with mystery and thriller elements on the subjects of time travel and social engineering.
- DirectorSuren BabayanStarsJuozas BudraitisAndrei BoltnevVladas BagdonasA film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's book The Martian Chronicles.
- DirectorAleksandr GintsburgStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevVsevolod SafonovMikhail AstangovA talented inventor who created the machine of unprecedented destructive power is obsessed with world domination. In his manic quest he commits one crime after another, without assuming the dreadful consequences would be for him.
- 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.
- DirectorNazim TulyahodzhayevStarsYury BelyayevNelli PshyonnayaGogi GegechkoriAdaptation of three short stories by Ray Bradbury. An atmosphere of hostility forms inside an unnamed city, and the citizens are unsettled by the materialization of ghosts and the memories of their loved ones.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksei AnanishnovEskender UmarovIrina SokolovaDays of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
- DirectorSergey SelyanovStarsYuriy ShevchukBoris GolyatkinGennadiy GarbukIvan Khristoforov discovers the strange property of involuntarily blowing up surrounding objects. Trying to understand the reason and meaning of this unusual ability, he turns to family history. The attention of the secret public service does not bode well for Khristoforov.
- DirectorAleksandr SurinStarsJuozas BudraitisVitali SolominAleksandr PorokhovshchikovAn accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.
- DirectorEvgeniy SherstobitovStarsVija ArtmaneSergey StolyarovNikolai KryukovA spaceship from Earth is trapped on the unknown planet. Based on book "Tumannost Andromedy" by Ivan Efremov.
- 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.
- 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.
