After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
Visual Effects
The alien ship design actually slaps — shame about the physics.
Production
Moscow destruction porn filmed with genuine Russian military hardware.
Director
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Irina Starshenbaum
Yulya Lebedeva
Alexander Petrov
Artyom (Tom)
Rinal Mukhametov
Haakon / Khariton
Oleg Menshikov
Colonel Lebedev
Sergey Garmash
Vice-Prime Minister
Nikita Kukushkin
Ruslan (Rus)
Darya Rudenok
Svetlana Morozova
Vilen Babichev
Police Special Forces
Nikita Tarasov
Deputy Mikhail Petrovich
Lyudmila Maksakova
Sofia
Evgeniy Mikheev
Student "Google"
Evgeny Sangadzhiev
Python
Aleksey Maslodudov
Mishkin
Anton Spinkov
Student Mironov
Evgeny Koryakovsky
Teacher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bondarchuk cast actual Russian military personnel and vehicles, making this the most expensive domestic blockbuster in Russian history at release.
The water-based alien biology was originally conceived for a different unmade project — Haakon's 'drowning in air' weakness explains those weird bathroom scenes with Yulya.
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