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In this photo (wallpaper): Aleksandr Mikhailov as Captain Dreier in the sci-fi movie.
Captain Dreier is the hero of the film "Through the Thorns to the Stars" (this film is
also known by other names: "Per Aspera Ad Astra" and "Humanoid Woman"),
is a 1981 Soviet film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a novel by Kir Bulychev.
The new version of the film can be viewed on YouTube with English subtitles:
Version of the film without subtitles:
In 2016 the film has been finally restored in full and has been shown in the cinema
"Cosmos" on the Day of Cosmonautics.
Interesting facts:
Did you know that it was in the Soviet sci-fi film "Through the Thorns to the Stars",
which was released in 1981, were first shown: color LCD displays and color LCD Tvs,
mobile phone as a watch and clones of people... Of course, all this was only an imitation
of things that have not yet been established, but the film turned out to be prophetic.
The first color LCD display appeared only in 1987 (Sharp).
Plot:
In the mysterious depths of the universe patrol starship, "Pushkin" has found a spaceship of
unknown design earthlings. Aboard was a laboratory for cloning of living organisms. Children
are like one another as two drops of water were dead. Only one girl, silent and frightened, was
still alive. Niya, looks a lot like a person was born in an unusual way - artificially grown from
living cells and possess unusual properties can instantly move in space, to move the view of
objects, it was lightning fast response, extraordinary strength. Back on Earth, scientists try to
decide whether the woman Niya is human or an artificially created being with no memories of
who she is. The scientist Sergei Lebedev offers to house her at his home in the countryside.
There Niya comes to discover many aspects of the human world for the first time. A slow
connection grows between her and Lebedev’s son Stepan. After seeing a tv broadcast about
ambassadors come to ask help for their dying world Dessa, Niya realises that this is where she
comes from and must return. She sneaks aboard the spaceship "Astra" where Stepan has just been
assigned as a space cadet as it is launched. Discovered, she is accepted aboard the mission. They
must conduct an emergency detour and then return an alien ambassador home to the planet Ocean.
Reaching Dessa, they become involved in helping the inhabitants of the world deal with pollution
created by the industrialist Turanchoks that is threatening to make the planet uninhabitable.
About the film:
On December 27, 2001, a new restored version directed by Nikolai Viktorov,
the son of the original film's director, was released as the 20th anniversary edition.
The film featured revised special effects by the Paradox company and an all-new
soundtrack in Dolby Digital; however, the film length was cut by twenty-five minutes
to speed up the dynamics of the plot, but also some episodes with Soviet ideological
context were also cut.
The most interesting is another. In this film does not really have anything relevant
to Soviet ideology, and the director of this film has been criticized in the Soviet era
just for this reason. This means that the film was subjected to repression twice,
first in the Soviet Union, and then in the era of modern Russia.