Moscow-Cassiopeia

Moscow-Cassiopeia
Directed by	Richard Viktorov
Written by	Isai Kuznetsov, Avenir Zak
Starring	Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Lev Durov
Distributed by	Gorky Film Studio Telecinco BBC One Polonia 1 France 4 ZDF Rai Movie, Rai Fiction ABS-CBN TV3 (Malaysia) Asianet, Nickelodeon-India
Release dates	1973 (1973)
Running time	85 min
Country	Soviet Union

Moscow-Cassiopeia (Russian: Москва — Кассиопея) is a Soviet 1973 film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak. Followed by Otroki vo vselennoy (second part, 1974). Runtime - 85 min.

Synopsis

From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio signals of intelligent beings from a planet of the star system Shedar (Alpha 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 "Dawn " (Starship relativistic nuclear annihilation), 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

• Innokenti Smoktunovsky as I.O.O. (Special Service Executive)
• Vasili Merkuryev as academician Blagovidov
• Lev Durov as academician Filatov
• Yuri Medvedev as academician Ogon-Duganovsky
• Pyotr Merkuryev as academician Kurochkin

Space ship DAWN crew

• Mikhail Yershov as Sereda
• Aleksandr Grigoryev as Kozelkov
• Vladimir Savin as Kopanygin
• Vladimir Basov Jr. as Lobanov
• Olga Bityukova as Kuteishchikova
• Nadezhda Ovcharova as Sorokina
• Irina Popova as Panfyorova

Other cast

• Anatoli Adoskin
• Natalya Fateyeva
• Nikolai Figurovsky
• Artyom Karapetyan
• Valentina Kutsenko
• Sergei Radchenko
• Raisa Ryazanova
• Nadezhda Semyontsova
• Natalya Strizhenova
• Anna Viktorova
• Nikolai Viktorov
• Mikhail Yanushkevich
• V. Zolotaryov

Trivia

• ZARYa stands for Spaceship (Zvezdolet) Annihilation Relativistical Nuclear (Yaderniy)

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