A physicist builds a sun-tunnel while space flowers doom us all. Soviet sci-fi hits different.
The Earth is facing great problems in the nearest future it is in the lack of sun light. Physicist Olmin is leading the project to build a special tunnel - made of elementary fractions - from the sun to the earth, in order to the earth could get much more sun energy and light. At the same time a strange flower is brought to the Earth from a dead planet.
Production
Glorious Soviet practical effects on a shoestring
Writing
Big ideas, 74 minutes, zero patience for your nonsense
Director
Gennadiy Ivanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a novel by Kir Bulychev, who wrote over 60 sci-fi books behind the Iron Curtain.
Filmed during Chernobyl's shadow—Soviet audiences read extra dread into 'solutions' that create bigger problems.
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