| Moscow-Cassiopeia | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Richard Viktorov |
| Written by | Isai Kuznetsov, Avenir Zak |
| Starring | Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Lev Durov |
| Distributed by | Gorky Film Studio Telecinco BBC One Polonia 1 France 4 ZDF Rai Movie, Rai Fiction ABS-CBN TV3 (Malaysia) Asianet, Nickelodeon-India |
| Release date(s) | 1973 |
| Running time | 85 min |
| Country | Soviet Union |
Moscow-Cassiopeia (Russian: Москва — Кассиопея) is a Soviet 1973 film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak. Followed by Otroki vo vselennoy (second part, 1974). Runtime - 85 min.
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From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio signals of intelligent beings from a planet of the star system Shedar (Alpha Cassiopeia constellation). A project is set up, proposed by the young inventor Vitya Sereda, to send a spaceship to reach the planet - but the flight will last for decades, so the crew of the spaceship "Dawn " (Starship relativistic nuclear annihilation), is to be recruited from teenage students.
The project is all carefully thought out but student Fyodor Lobanov stows away aboard the starship and unwittingly causes it to transend the speed of light and so reaching its target 27 years ahead of schedule...