At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…
Production
Genuine 1983 Soviet aesthetic—filmed in actual brutalist locations.
Acting
Oksana Akinshina's ice-cold determination carries every frame.
Practical Effects
The creature design hits that sweet spot of beautiful and repulsive.
Director
Egor Abramenko
Oksana Akinshina
Tatyana Klimova
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Colonel Semiradov
Pyotr Fyodorov
Konstantin Veshnyakov
Anton Vasilyev
Yan Rigel
Aleksey Demidov
Kirill Averchenko
Anna Nazarova
Nurse
Vitaliya Kornienko
Child in Orphanage
Vasily Zotov
Biologist
Aleksandr Marushev
Prisoner Ruben
Shamil Mukhamedov
Adjutant of Semiradov
Ruslan Dzhaybekov
Physiotherapist
Vitaly Kondrashov
Averchenko's Understudy
Irina Byakova
Nanny
Grigory Melikbekyan
Herdsman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Egor Abramenko expanded this from his 2017 short film 'The Passenger,' which won at Fantastic Fest and essentially got him this feature deal.
The film deliberately mirrors the real 1983 Soviet space program cover-ups, when cosmonaut deaths were officially denied until Glasnost—making the 'what's being hidden' tension historically grounded.
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