Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

FrOM the CradLe tO the GraVe:
COSMONaut NOStaLGIa IN SOVIet aNd pOSt-SOVIet FILM
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Masha bids farewell to her crewmates from the Vega, Shcherba and Allan Kern, as
they prepare to land on Venus to rescue their colleagues from the Serius in Planeta
Bur’ Klushantsev, Pavel. Planeta Bur’ (Planet of Storms). V. Emel’ianov; Iu. Sarantsev;
G. Zhzhenov; K. Ignatova; G. Vernov; G. Teikh, Leningrad Popular Science Film Studio,
1962. 83 min. (Courtesy Seagull Films of New York)
it, Nebo zovët took pains at demonstrating the efects of spacefight through
special efects and set design.
two years after the release of Nebo zovët and within one year of Yuri Gagarin’s
historic fight, another Soviet science education flm director, pavel Klushantsev,
presented his own fctional interplanetary tale, Planeta bur’ (Planet of Storms). 30 the
movie began with a crash.a meteor crashes into one of three Soviet spacecraft en
30. pavel Klushantsev, Planeta bur’ (Planet of Storms), emel’ianov, V.; Sarantsev, Iu.; Zhzhenov, G.;
Ignatova, K.;Vernov, G.;teikh, G. (Lennauchflm, Leningrad popular Science Film Studio, 1962),
83 min. Like its immediate predecessor, this flm, too, had a second cinematic life in american
theaters, frst as the 1965 Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and then in 1968 as Voyage to the Planet
of Prehistoric Women. director peter Bogdanovich created the second american version. Curtis
harrington, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, rathbone, Basil; domergue, Faith; Shannon, Marc
(roger Corman productions, 1965), 78 min. and peter Bogdanovich, Voyage to the Planet of
Prehistoric Women,Van doren, Mamie; Marr, Mary; Lee, paige (the Filmgroup, 1968), 78 min.