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Teens in the Universe

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Teens in the Universe
Отроки во Вселенной
Directed byRichard Viktorov
Written byIsai Kuznetsov
Avenir Zak
StarringInnokenti Smoktunovsky
Vasili Merkuryev
Lev Durov
Distributed byGorky Film Studio
Release date
  • 1974 (1974)
Running time
84 min
CountrySoviet Union

Teens in the Universe (Russian: Отроки во Вселенной, romanizedOtroki vo vselennoy) is a 1974 Soviet science fiction film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak about teenage space travelers. It was preceded by Moscow-Cassiopeia (1973), the first part.

Synopsis

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The crewmembers of ZARYa starship supposed to mature during 27-year-long flight, unexpectedly arrive to 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, a stowaway, Lobanov meets 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 communications outage the 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 people from the space station.

Cast

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Space ship Zarya crew

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