Moscow-Cassiopeia

Moscow-Cassiopeia
Moscow-Cassiopeia
Directed by
Written by	;
Starring	Innokenty Smoktunovsky; Vasili Merkuryev; Lev Durov
Cinematography	Andrei Kirillov
Edited by	Olga Katusheva
Music by	Vladimir Chernyshev
Distributed by	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	1974;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Soviet Union

Moscow-Cassiopeia (Russian: Москва — Кассиопея, romanized: Moskva-Kassiopeya) is a Soviet comic science fiction film directed by based on a script by and . Followed by Teens in the Universe (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 Cassiopeia constellation. 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 as I.O.O. (Extraordinary Service Executive)
Vasili Merkuryev as academician Blagovidov
Lev Durov as academician Filatov
as academician Ogon-Duganovsky
as academician Kurochkin

Space ship DAWN crew[]

as Victor Sereda
as Pavel Kozelkov
as Mikhail Kopanygin
as Feodor Lobanov
as Varvara Kuteishchikova
as Yulia Sorokina
Irina Popova as Katya Panfyorova

Other cast[]

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, Triest, 1975
Special Prize of the International Cinema Festival (in the Children films category), Moscow, 1975
Platero Prize of the International Cinema Festival as the film for the Kids and Youth, Gijón, 1975.
Diploma of the Moscow Technical Contest of the Films, UNIATEK congress, Moscow, 1976
State Premio of RSFSR in the honour of Vasilyiev Brothers, 1977.

External links[]

Moscow-Cassiopeia at IMDb
Moscow-Cassiopeia is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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