The Mystery of the Third Planet

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The Mystery of the Third Planet
DVD cover (Krupnyy Plan)
Directed by	Roman Kachanov
Produced by	Soyuzmultfilm
Written by	Kir Bulychyov (story & screenplay)
Starring	Olga Gromova Yuri Andreyev Vladimir Druzhnikov Vladimir Kenigson Vasily Livanov Rina Zelyonaya
Music by	Aleksandr Zatsepin
Editing by	Nadezhda Treshcheva Olga Vasilenko
Distributed by	Unionсartoon (Russian: Союзмультфильм) USSR Original Studio, Jambre Pictures (1981-1985), Touchstone Pictures (re-release, 1985) USA, Nippon Animation JPN
Release date(s)	1981 (USSR)
Running time	50 min 6 sec
Country	USSR
Language	Russian
IMDb profile

The Mystery of the Third Planet (Russian: Та́йна тре́тьей плане́ты, Tayna Tretyey Planety), aka. The Secret of the Third Planet is a 1981 Soviet traditionally-animated feature film directed by Roman Kachanov and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. It is based on one of a series of stories by well-known writer Kir Bulychyov about Alisa (Alice) Seleznyova, a young girl living in the second half of the 21st century in a communist society (though no aspects of communism are mentioned or shown in the film). Many phrases from the film have slipped into popular usage in Russia.

1 Plot
2 Creators
3 Home video and English adaptations
4 Games
5 See also
6 External links
- 6.1 Games

[edit] Plot

On June 2, 2181, Alice, her father Professor Seleznyov and Captain Green go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way, they visit many planets, meet many interesting denizens of the cosmos (such as a flying cow and a chatterbird) and accidentally uncover and become caught up in a criminal conspiracy.

[edit] Creators

	English	Russian
Director	Roman Kachanov	Роман Качанов
Writer	Kir Bulychyov (story & screenplay)	Кир Булычёв
Scenario	Nikolai Rozhkov Yevgeniy Pomeshchikov	Николай Рожков Евгений Помещиков
Script Editor	Natalya Abramova	Наталья Абрамова
Art Director	Natalya Orlova^†	Наталья Орлова^†
Artists	Alla Goreva Dmitriy Kulikov Igor Oleynikov I. Litovskaya Irina Svetlitsa Victor Chuguyevskiy V. Maksimovich Geliy Arkadyev Gennady Morozov	Алла Горева Дмитрий Куликов Игорь Олейников И. Литовская Ирина Светлица Виктор Чугуевский В. Максимович Гелий Аркадьев Геннадий Морозов
Animators	Marina Voskanyants Marina Rogova Vladimir Arbekov Vladimir Zarubin Aleksandr Panov Violetta Kolesnikova Renata Mirenkova Vladimir Shevchenko Antonina Alyoshina Olga Orlova Joseph Kuroyan Yuriy Batanin	Марина Восканьянц Марина Рогова Владимир Арбеков Владимир Зарубин Александр Панов Виолетта Колесникова Рената Миренкова Владимир Шевченко Антонина Алешина Ольга Орлова Иосиф Куроян Юрий Батанин
Camera Operators	Svetlana Koshcheyeva Teodor Bunimovich	Светлана Кощеева Теодор Бунимович
Composer	Alexander Zatsepin	Александр Зацепин
Sound Operator	Boris Filchikov	Борис Фильчиков
Executive Producer	Ninel Lipnitskaya	Нинель Липницкая
Voice Actors	Irina Gromova (Alice) Vsevolod Larionov (Seleznyov) Vasily Livanov (Gromozeka) Grigory Shpigel (Vesselchuck Oo) Rina Zelyonaya (Old Lady with a cake) Yuriy Andreyev (Prof. Verhovtsev) Vladimir Druzhnikov (Cpt. Kim) Vladimir Kenigson (Chatterbird) Yuriy Volyntsev (Cpt. Green) Yelena Krasnobayeva	Ирина Громова (Алиса) Всеволод Ларионов (Селезнёв) Василий Ливанов (Громозека) Григорий Шпигель (Весельчак У) Рина Зеленая (старушка с тортиком) Юрий Андреев (профессор Верховцев) Владимир Дружников (капитан Ким) Владимир Кенигсон (Говорун) Юрий Волынцев (капитан Зелёный) Елена Краснобаева

^ The actress Yekaterina Semyonova, daughter of Orlova, has said that the design of Alice was based on her and that her father served as the prototype of Captain Green.

[edit] Home video and English adaptations

The film was adapted twice for the US market. It was first brought over as a video release in 1987, with dubbed voices. The second time, it was released in the 1990s as part of Mikhail Baryshnikov's "Stories from My Childhood" series. This series consisted of films that were bought by California-based company Films by Jove from Soyuzmultfilm for the international market. Over $1.5 million was spent by this company restoring the prints, adding new music and redubbing the films with American actors. This version of the film was named Alice and the Mystery of the Third Planet and has been released on VHS as well as on a 1999 DVD collection with several other films[1]. The film has been released on DVD several times (the latest release, which featured rather misleading cover art, was in October 2005 [2]), but there is currently no version which preserves the original Russian voices and music and also has English subtitles. The Films by Jove version of the film has been criticized by some of those who saw the original for adding many extra dialogue lines, shortening the film, and replacing the unique music, which was originally all done with Russian synthesizers.[3]

The original film has been released on several DVD editions in Russia, including a newly-restored one by Krupnyy Plan.

[edit] Games

In 2005 an arcade platform game was made by the company "Akella" (Акелла) based on the film, called "Alice's Space Adventure".
An adventure game was released in the same year called "Alice's Journey", also produced by Akella (but developed by "Step Creative Group").