The Andromeda Nebula (1967)

Original title

Туманность Андромеды

Directed by

Yevgeny Sherstobitov

Genre

romance film, science fiction film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the year 1967, a spaceship crew investigates an alien planet ruined by artificial radioactivity. On their way back, they get trapped by an iron star and must survive predators that attack through their space suits.

retro-futuristicmelancholicsuspensefulheroicpensivebleaksurvival

What happens

The Andromeda Nebula (Russian: «Туманность Андромеды») is a 1967 Soviet science fiction film starring Sergei Stolyarov and directed by Yevgeni Sherstobitov at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. The film was originally intended to be the first episode of a series of films, alternatively titled as The Andromeda Nebula: Episode I. Prisoners of the Iron Star. However, the remaining parts were never made. Officially, it was due to Stolyarov's death, but also because the trilogy's entire budget was spent on the first film and also because the society on the alien planet was seen as criticism of the Soviet Union. The film is based upon the 1957 novel Andromeda Nebula by Ivan Yefremov. It follows the story of a group of humans on the spaceship Tantra tasked with investigating the home planet of an alien race. They discover that artificial radioactivity has killed almost all life on that planet. During the voyage home the ship is trapped by the gravitational force of an iron star and lands on a planet orbiting the star. Surrounded by predators who destroy human nervous system through space suits, the crew has to fight to see Earth again. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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