Moscow-Cassiopeia

Alpha Cassiopeiae

Alpha Cassiopeiae is a second magnitude star in the constellation Cassiopeia, with the traditional name Schedar, sometimes spelt Shedir. Though listed as the alpha star by Johann Bayer, Schedar's visual brightness closely rivals the beta star in the constellation, Caph...

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.

Synopsis

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...

Cast

• Innokenti Smoktunovsky as I.O.O. (Special Service Executive)
• Vasili Merkuryev
  Vasili Merkuryev
  -Selected filmography:* The Return of Maxim * Professor Mamlock * The Vyborg Side * The Great Glinka * The Vow * The Battle of Stalingrad * True Friends * Twelfth Night...
  
   as academician Blagovidov
• Lev Durov
  Lev Durov
  Lev Konstantinovich Durov is a Soviet/Russian theatre and films actor since 1955, People's Artist of USSR.-Filmography:actor* I Step Through Moscow * All The King's Men - Sugar Boy* Stariki-razboyniki - driver...
  
   as academician Filatov
• Yuri Medvedev as academician Ogon-Duganovsky
• Pyotr Merkuryev as academician Kurochkin

Space ship DAWN crew

• Mikhail Yershov as Sereda
• Aleksandr Grigoryev as Kozelkov
• Vladimir Savin as Kopanygin
• Vladimir Basov Jr. as Lobanov
• Olga Bityukova as Kuteishchikova
• Nadezhda Ovcharova as Sorokina
• Irina Popova as Panfyorova

Other cast

• Anatoli Adoskin
• Natalya Fateyeva
• Nikolai Figurovsky
• Artyom Karapetyan
• Valentina Kutsenko
• Sergei Radchenko
• Raisa Ryazanova
• Nadezhda Semyontsova
• Natalya Strizhenova
• Anna Viktorova
• Nikolai Viktorov
• Mikhail Yanushkevich
• V. Zolotaryov

Trivia

• ZARYa stands for Spaceship (Zvezdolet) Annihilation
  Annihilation
  Annihilation is defined as "total destruction" or "complete obliteration" of an object; having its root in the Latin nihil . A literal translation is "to make into nothing"....
  
   Relativistical
  Theory of relativity
  The theory of relativity, or simply relativity, encompasses two theories of Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. However, the word relativity is sometimes used in reference to Galilean invariance....
  
   Nuclear (Yaderniy)

Awards

• Premio for the Best Film for Kids of the All-Union Cinema Festival, Baku
  Baku
  Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
  
  , 1974
• Special Premio of the International Cinema Festival of Science Fiction Films, Triest, 1975
• Special Prize of the International Cinema Festival (in the Children films category), Moscow
  Moscow
  Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
  
  , 1975
• Platero Prize of the International Cinema Festival as the film for the Kids and Youth, Gijón
  Gijón
  Gijón , officially Gijón / Xixón, is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia". It was an important regional Roman city, although the area has been settled since earliest history...
  
  , 1975.
• Diploma of the Moscow Technical Contest of the Films, UNIATEK congress, Moscow
  Moscow
  Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
  
  , 1976
• State Premio of RSFSR in the honour of Vasilyiev Brothers, 1977.