Moscow-Cassiopeia

Moscow-Cassiopeia
Moscow-Cassiopeia
Directed by	Richard Viktorov
Written by	Isai Kuznetsov; Avenir Zak
Starring	Innokenti 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 1974 science fiction comedy film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak. 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 "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

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 viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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