''Moon Rainbow'' (russian: Лунная радуга, Lunnaya raduga) is a 1983 Soviet

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directed by Andrei Yermash based on the novel of the same name by Sergei Pavlov about a person gaining inexplicable extrasensory properties in the process of space exploration.

Plot

In different regions of the

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, "black traces" are registered where unexplained atmospheric anomalies and

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s take place. A specially created operational group manages to find out the connection of "traces" with a cosmic catastrophe on the outskirts of the

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, as a result of which only four survivors were left. They were Timur Kizimov, David Norton, Jean Laura and Eduard Jong. On

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, a satellite of the planet

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, there was a geological catastrophe — a huge section of the surface collapsed into the bowels of the planetoid. As a consequence, nine of the Space Marine spies sent by the "Moon Rainbow" expedition were killed, leaving the four others. During the incident, above the place of collapse, a strange greenish glow of unclear nature appears. The four survivors apparently fall under the influence of radiation from this phenomenon. The story of the "Black Wave" begins in the

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, at the weather station "Eagle Peak", where during a blizzard all electronics fail due to the extraordinary abilities of the former Space Marine Kizimov, who is just carrying out the watch at that time. But in the film, more attention is paid to the story of David Norton, nicknamed "Moon Dev". Thanks to his super abilities acquired at the time of the disaster on Oberon, he performs a feat inexplicable from any scientific point of view, passing safely unaided across the plateau of "Fire Snakes" on

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where, before his attempt, reconnaissance squads constantly perished.

Cast

Vladimir Gostyukhin Vladimir Vasilyevich Gostyukhin (russian: Владимир Васильевич Гостюхин, be, Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Гасцю́хін, born 10 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian, Belarusian film and stage actor. ...

— David Norton (Moon Dev) *

Vasily Livanov Vasily Borisovich Livanov (russian: link=no, Василий Борисович Ливанов; born 19 July 1935), MBE, is a Soviet and Russian film actor, animation and film director, screenwriter and writer most famous for portraying Sherlock H ...

— Galbraith *

Yury Solomin Yury Mefodievich Solomin (russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born June 18, 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture ...

— Nikolsky *

Igor Starygin Igor Vladimirovich Starygin (Russian:''Игорь Владимирович Старыгин'', 13 June 1946 in Moscow – 8 November 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. An alumnus of the Russian Academy of Theatre Ar ...

— Frank Pauling *

Vladimir Kenigson Vladimir Vladimirovich Kenigson (russian: Владимир Владимирович Кенигсон; November 7, 1907 – November 17, 1986) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1982). Biography and caree ...

— Charles Leonard Rogan *

Georgiy Taratorkin Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin (russian: Георгий Георгиевич Тараторкин; 11 January 1945 – 4 February 2017) was a Soviet-Russian film and stage actor who appeared in over 70 films between 1967 and 2017. He was the Se ...

— Timur Kizimov *

Natalya Sayko Natalya Petrovna Saiko (russian: Наталья Петровна Сайко, born 12 January 1948) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films since 1969. Selected filmography * ''Confrontation'' (Противосто� ...

— Lyudmila Bakulina (Bystrov) *

Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov Aleksandr Shalvovich Porokhovshchikov (russian: Александр Шалвович Пороховщиков, 31 January 1939, Moscow – 15 April 2012, Moscow) was a Russian film and theatre actor and film director, People's Artist of Russia ...

— Buck *Leonid Nevedomsky — Garanin *Grazhyna Baikshtite — Silvia Norton *Gediminas Girdvainis — Albertas Grizhas *Boris Ivanov — Martin Weber *Sergey Desnitsky — head of the group "Mongoose" *Alexander Novikov — Aimo Zotto, nicknamed "Canary"

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{{IMDb title, tt0089618 Soviet science fiction films 1980s science fiction films Mosfilm films Films scored by Eduard Artemyev