Teens in the Universe

Teens in the Universe
Teens in the Universe
Directed by
Written by	;
Starring	Innokenti Smoktunovsky; Vasili Merkuryev; Lev Durov
Distributed by	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	1974;
Running time	84 min
Country	Soviet Union

Teens in the Universe (Russian: Отроки во Вселенной, romanized: Otroki vo vselennoy) is a Soviet 1974 science fiction film directed by based on a script by and about teens in the universe. Preceded by Moscow-Cassiopeia (first part, 1973).

Synopsis[]

The crewmembers of ZARYa starship supposed to mature during 27-year-long flight, appear at the Shedar system after less than one year of local time travel. Remote sensing verifies that one of the planets is very much Earth-like. Three of the crew members should land the new planet. They use the reconnaissance capsule and encounter the apparently abandoned planet. But the "extra" member of the crew Lobanov meets the strange more or less human-like creatures that escort him and his mates to the underground city. They become unreachable for radio communications.

During this link outage orbiting ZARYa rendezvous with another giant spaceship. The commander of that ship explains that their home planet is populated only by the two kinds of bionic robots - executors and far more advanced rulers. These robots were invented two centuries ago, but after some period of good work, rulers tried to improve humans as well as the nature of the planet. Unfortunately, this "improvement" led to the total aloofness of the processed people, including suppression of love and reproductive behaviour. After a century and a half all population of the planet was dead. Only the space radio observatory station crew was unreachable for the robotic "care".

ZARYa crew sets up the second capsule to rescue the crew members captured by robots. Agapit, the son of the station commander, will be their guide in the underground city. After some troubles, boys counterfeit the recharging request from the power plant and burn up all robots at the planet, making it free for the space stationers.

Cast[]

Innokenti 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
as Robot 2

Space ship Zarya crew[]

as Vitya Sereda
as Pasha Kozelkov
as Misha Kopanygin
as Fedya "Lob" Lobanov
as Varya Kuteishchikova
as Yulia Sorokina
Irina Popova as Katya Panfyorova

Other cast[]

as Agapit
Igor Ledogorov as Agapit's father
Natalya Fateyeva as Pasha Kozelkov's mom
Anatoly Adoskin as Pasha Kozelkov's dad
as Robot Executor
Nikolai Pogodin
Raisa Ryazanova
S. Safonov
Aleksandr Zimin

Awards[]

Prize for the Best Film for Kids and Youth of the All-Union Cinema Festival, Kishinev, 1975
Special prize "Silver Asteroid" of the International Cinema Festival of Science Fiction Films, Triest, 1976
Grand prize of the International Festival at Panama, 1976
Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) in the honour of Vasilyev brothers, 1977.

External links[]

Teens in the Universe at IMDb
Teens in the Universe is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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