This Merry Planet
| This Merry Planet | |
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| Written by |
Dmitri Ivanov Yuri Saakov |
| Directed by |
Yuri Saakov Yuri Tsvetkov |
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| Music by | David Tukhmanov |
| Country of origin | Soviet Union |
| Original language(s) | Russian |
| Production | |
| Cinematography | Konstantin Petrichenko |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Mosfilm |
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| Original release |
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This Merry Planet (Russian: Эта весёлая планета, translit. Eta vesyolaya planeta) is a 1973 Soviet science fiction-musical television film directed by Yuri Saakov and Yuri Tsvetkov.[1][2]
Plot
On the eve of the New Year a delegation from space arrives on Earth. The aliens find it difficult to understand what is happening on the planet. By chance they end up at a party of a Soviet scientific research organization.
The aliens are convinced that they will immediately become the center of attention, but, as everyone is dressed up in costumes, their appearance at the evening in the House of Culture does not cause any excitement. They try to prove their extraterrestrial origin, but no one believes them. One young astronomer is trying to bring this extraordinary event to the audience, but also to no avail, and additionally he is deeply mistaken — he mistook earthling (Saveliy Kramarov) for an alien as he was dressed as a "perpetuum mobile".
And only by midnight some of the aliens realize that they had discovered the most beautiful planet in the universe, where people know how to love, rejoice and be sad.
Cast
- Victor Sergachyov — X, the commander of the spaceship aliens
- Leonid Kuravlyov — Y, a crew member of the alien ship
- Yekaterina Vasilyeva — Z, alien woman, crew member of the alien ship
- Savely Kramarov — Prokhor, "perpetuum mobile"
- Natalya Krachkovskaya — "Butterfly"
- Vladimir Nosik — Valerik, "Stargazer"
- Elena Maksimova — Prokhor's mother
- Larisa Barabanova — "Little Red Riding Hood"
- Alexander Vokach — Pal Palych, elderly animator
- Igor Kashintsev — "Pirate"
- Yuri Demich
- Mikhail Ezepov — the scientist—physicist
- Valentin Golubenko — "Ilya Muromets"
- Gennadi Yukhtin — "Pinocchio"