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For the set-up for this story, see Moscow
- Cassiopeia: Young Victor Sereda (Misha Yershov) has brought
his teen companions (Aleksandr
Grigoryev, Vladimir Savin, Olga Bityukova, Nadezhda Ovcharova, Irina
Popova, Vladimir Basov Ml.) safely to Cassiopeia, and while one half of
the team (Aleksandr
Grigoryev, Olga Bityukova, Vladimir Basov Ml.) are sent down to Cassiopeia
Alpha on a survey mission and are soon captured by robots who want to
brainwash them, the rest of the teens meet the former alien inhabitants of
the planet who tell them how the robots have taken over, and that they
have sent a distress call to earth 250 years ago, which due to the
distance between earth and Cassiopeia was only now answered by our teen
space expedition. Victor, crewmember Julia and alien Agapit (Vadim
Ledogorov) go down to the planet to save the survey team from being
brainwashed into oblivious bliss, and after much to and fro they decide
the only way to save the planet is to blow up its powerstation (apparently
it has only got one) - which really ends all robotic life (apart from two
clumsy but well-meaning service robots) and allows the actual inhabitants
of the planet to return to their old home ... This is a movie
about a handful of 13 to 14 year old kids saving a whole planet from a
robot plague, so you shouldn't expect too much from this film - basically
it's a kiddie feature, and you have to accept that. As such the film is
... ok I guess. It's nothing great on one hand, and it takes quite some
time to kick into gear, but on the other hand, there are these magnificent
1970's style futuristic sets and costumes (which in the Soviet Union have
pretty much looked like their American or European counterparts) and a
enjoyably dated approach to science that make this film entertaining in a
nostalgic way after all.
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