Aliens showed up, humanity got high on space drugs, and nobody's asking the right questions.
Life on Earth has changed after the visit of alien ships hovering in various parts of the planet. Their passengers — biopages or "Vitaliki", as they are popularly called — produce a substance called "prak". Its purpose, as well as the purpose of the aliens' visit, is unknown, but nurse Nina (Irina Salikova) from a quiet provincial town hopes to help her sick father with the help of prak. After contacting Vitalik, Nina learns the truth about extraterrestrial beings, which completely changes her life.
Direction
Moiseev treats the cosmic with mundane dread.
Acting
Salikova's desperate hope cuts through the weirdness.
Production
Alien contact looks appropriately cheap and terrifying.
Director
Dmitry Moiseev
Irina Salikova
Нина
Sergey Gilev
Игорь
Aleksey Yarmilko
отец Нины
Valentin Samokhin
Мухин
Denis Filimonov
Леня
Alexandr Mizev
Костя
Dmitriy Vorobyov
Горбатов
Elena Lychagina
чиновница
Aleksandr Nikolskiy
Толик
Natalya Pavlenkova
Тамара
Inna Stepanova
Люда
Valeriya Skorokhodova
Барышня
Ivan Kozin
Тело
Konstantin Solovyov
Кэп
Andrey Kuznetsov
Банев
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian sci-fi often treats alien contact as bureaucratic or economic rather than military—think Roadside Picnic's Zone, now with healthcare anxiety.
The 5.0 rating likely reflects festival circuit obscurity rather than quality; this is mid-budget Eastern European genre cinema that Western algorithms barely register.
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