''Moscow- Cassiopeia'' (russian: Москва — Кассиопея, Moskva-Kassiopeya) is a

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film directed by

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based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak. Followed by ''

Teens in the Universe ''Teens in the Universe'' (russian: Отроки во Вселенной, 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. Pr ...

'' (second part, 1975).

Synopsis

From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio signals of intelligent beings from a planet of the star system Shedar in the

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. A project is set up, proposed by the young inventor Vitya Sereda, to send a spaceship to reach the planet - but the flight will last for decades, so the crew of the spaceship ''ЗАРЯ'' or ''Zarya'' (an acronym for Spaceship (''zvezdolet'') Annihilation Relativistical Nuclear (''yaderniy''), also meaning "dawn"), is to be recruited from teenage students. The project is all carefully thought out but student Fyodor Lobanov stows away aboard the starship and unwittingly causes it to transcend the speed of light and so reaching its target 27 years ahead of schedule...

Cast

Innokenty Smoktunovsky Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist ...

as S.S.E. (Special Service Executive) *

Vasili Merkuryev Vasili Vasilyevich Merkuryev (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Мерку́рьев; 6 April 1904 – 12 May 1978) was a Soviet actor, stage director and drama teacher. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1960.

as academician Blagovidov *

Lev Durov Lev Konstantinovich Durov ( rus, Лев Константинович Дуров, p=ˈlʲef kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪdʑ ˈdurəf; 23 December 1931 – 20 August 2015) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor who appeared in more than 200 ...

as academician Filatov * Yuri Medvedev as academician Ogon-Duganovsky * Pyotr Merkuryev as academician Kurochkin

Space ship ''DAWN'' crew

* Mikhail Yershov as Victor Sereda * Aleksandr Grigoryev as Pavel Kozelkov * Vladimir Savin as Mikhail Kopanygin * Vladimir Basov Jr. as Feodor Lobanov * Olga Bityukova as Varvara Kuteishchikova *

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as Yulia Sorokina * Irina Popova as Katya Panfyorova

Other cast

Anatoly Adoskin Anatoly Mikhailovich Adoskin (russian: Анатолий Михайлович Адоскин; 23 November 1927 – 20 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1996). Biography A ...

Natalya Fateyeva Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva (russian: Наталья Николаевна Фатеева; born 23 December 1934) is a Soviet and Russian film actress and television presenter. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1956. People's Artist ...

* Nikolai Figurovsky * Artyom Karapetyan * Valentina Kutsenko * Sergei Radchenko *

Raisa Ryazanova Raisa Ivanovna Ryazanova (russian: Раиса Ивановна Рязанова; born 31 October 1944 in Petropavlovsk) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She has performed in more than sixty films since 1969. She won the State Prize ...

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* Natalya Strizhenova * Anna Viktorova * Nikolai Viktorov * Mikhail Yanushkevich

Filming

Initially, there was a single script, without dividing into two films, but when the amount of footage exceeded the standard timekeeping of a Soviet film, permission was obtained from the Goskino USSR to shoot two: "Moscow — Cassiopeia" and "

". This did not affect the filming process in any way, as a result of which in the second film in some episodes the guys look younger than in the first. Cosmonaut

Georgy Beregovoy Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Берегово́й, ua, Гео́ргій Тимофі́йович Берегови́й; 15 April 1921 – 30 June 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the s ...

was a consultant for the film. The costumes for the heroes were made of metallized nylon, high boots were equipped with magnetic suction cups, and the astronauts had a sense catcher on their chests that translated from any language of the Universe. The weightlessness scene was a reference to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and was shot in 4 stages with the participation of Valery Pavlotos, a design engineer at the Yalta Film Studio. The movements of each actor along their own trajectory made a strong impression on the jury of the X "UNIATEC" International competition.. In Russian

Awards

* Premio for the Best Film for Kids of the All-Union Cinema Festival, Baku, 1974 * Special Premio of the International Cinema Festival of Science Fiction Films,

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, 1975 * Special Prize of the International Cinema Festival (in the Children films category),

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, 1975 * ''Platero'' Prize of the International Cinema Festival as the film for the Kids and Youth,

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, 1975. * Diploma of the Moscow Technical Contest of the Films, UNIATEK congress,

, 1976 * State Premio of RSFSR in the honour of Vasilyiev Brothers, 1977.

References

External links

* * 1974 films 1970s science fiction comedy-drama films Russian science fiction comedy-drama films 1970s Russian-language films Soviet science fiction comedy-drama films Space adventure films Films about time travel Gorky Film Studio films {{1970s-sf-film-stub