Moon Rainbow (1983)

Лунная радуга

Four astronauts come back from a disaster in space with strange new powers, and the authorities must decide whether they are still human.

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Year
1983
Director
Andrei Yermash
Starring
Vasily Livanov, Yuri Solomin
Genre
Fantasy, Drama
Running time
1 h 29 min
Based on
The novel by Sergei Pavlov
Language
Russian, English subtitles
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Mysterious 'black traces', zones of magnetic and weather chaos, start appearing on Earth. Investigators link them to four astronauts who survived an accident near Uranus.

A commission led by Galbraith and Nikolsky has to find out what happened out there and whether the survivors are dangerous.

A rare piece of Soviet space science fiction with a thoughtful, mysterious mood.

Did you know?

  • It is based on Sergei Pavlov's science-fiction novel.
  • Vasily Livanov, famous as Sherlock Holmes in Soviet TV films, plays Galbraith.

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