An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.
Practical Effects
Zero-budget spacecraft built from industrial salvage.
Acting
Budraitis conveys cosmic dread through sheer exhaustion.
Director
Aleksandr Surin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the actual Salyut program era; some props were borrowed from real Soviet space facilities.
Director Surin allegedly smuggled film stock from a military documentary unit to complete shooting.
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