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VYI
1967 dur.80 min. remakedir. K.Ershov, G. Kropatchev. Based on the story by Nicolai Gogol. A man who went on his business stopped in a village for a night and uexpectedly killed a local witch. In revenge she asked her father to make the man reading prays over her coffin for three nights. When she couldn`t kill the man herself during those nights she called the mistery creature from Hell called Vyi to help her.(The pictures above and below)
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RETURN FROM THE ORBIT
1984 dur. 90 min. dir. Alexander Surin. Sort of Apollo 13 stuff. The film contains real space scenes of the Earth from space shot by Russian austanauts.
THE DEATH OF THE 31ST DEPARTMENT
1985(?)Dir.- ? Based on the novel by Per Wahloo.
THE ENGENEER GARIN`S HYPERBOLOID
1965 dur 90 min.dir. A. Gintsburg. Based on the novel by Alexei Tolstoi
THE VOICE OF MEMORY
1980 dur. 20 min.dir. V. Zhilko. Based on the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury.
THE CITY IS UNDER ATTACK
1933 dur. 70min.dir. Y. Genina , M. Stepanov.
MISTER DESIGNER
1988 (?) dur. 90 min.dir. Oleg Teptsov. Based on the story THE BLACK CAR by Alexander Grin.
An ordinary designer was asked to create an alive looking life size doll. He got paid and got on with his life but suddenly he net that doll very much alive and married to a rich guy who later was killed.
GUEST FROM THE FUTURE
1984 Made for television 6 episodes 50 min. each. dir. Pavel Arsenov. Based on the novel by Kir Bulytchev ONE HUNDRED YEARS FORWARD (I couldn`t translate the title closer because there is a word game that mixes the tenses and the title for a Russian grammatically sounds something like BACK TO THE FUTURE. It was the second sci-fi TV hit for children which made a big star out of the girl who played Alice.(The girl to the left at the picture on the left. Sorry for the quality of some pictures, It`s hard to get hold of pictures from Russian films at all)
THE LILAC BALL
(?)DIR.- ? Based on the novel by Kir Bulytchev. The same girl plays Alice.
THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GENERAL
(?)DIR.? - Based on the novel by Kir Bulytchev. Alice again.
MILLION ADVENTURES
(?)dir.- ? Based on the set of short stories by Kir Bulytchev. Alice again.
THE PASSAGE
(?)Short animated film based on the novel by Kir Bulytchev.
The survivers of a spaceship crash had to leave the remains of the ship in order to find a better place to set a village and save themselves from the radiation of the ship. They travel far into the terrain, set a village and raise children. The children of survivers know about the ship and Earth only by the stories their parents have told them. From time to time the villagers set a group that tries to reach the remains of the ship and get some stuff from there. But because of the climat of the planet people can only reach the ship during short time of suumer as they have to cross a pretty hard passage. The film tells the story of one successful expedition. Three youngsters and one old surviver are travelling to the spaceship trough the passage in the mountains and meeting all kind of creatures of this planet. This film almost has no voice over dialogues, almost everything is told only by pictures and music.
DAYS OF ECLYPCE
1988 (?) dur 100min.dir Alexander Sokurov. Very remotely based on the novel by the Strugatsky Brothers ONE MILLIARD YEARS BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD. They also were involved in writing of the script.
THE DAY OF ANGER
1985 dur 80 min.dir. Sulambek Mamilov. Based on the short story by Sever Gansovski.
THE TRIAL OF PILOT PIRKS
1979 dur. 100 min. USSR and Polanddir. Marek Pestrak. Based on the short story by Stanislaw Lem THE TRIAL.
DOMINUS
1990 (?) dur 70 min.dir A. Khvan. Based on the short story by Ray Bradbury.
