Planeta Bur (1962)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Pavel Klushantsev

Writers:

Aleksandr Kazantsev (writer)
Pavel Klushantsev (writer)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Cosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it. |

Plot Keywords:

Cosmonaut | Venus | Soviet | Europe | 1960s

Cast

Vladimir Yemelyanov	...	Ilya Vershinin
Georgi Zhzhyonov	...	Bobrov
Gennadi Vernov	...	Alyosha
Yuri Sarantsev	...	Scherba
Georgi Tejkh	...	Kern
Kyunna Ignatova	...	Masha

Also Known As:

Cosmonauts on Venus
Planet of Storms
Planet of Tempests
Planeta Burg (USA) (bootleg title)
Storm Planet

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Company:

Leningrad Popular Science Film Studio

Trivia:

This movie is later edited and dubbed as "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet", released in the US in 1965. This movie (and the Russian inserts) were in turn used to create "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" (1968)

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Star Dreamer (2002)

Classic Soviet Sci Fi Adventure

I saw this in my childhood and took years to track it down again since I saw it under one of its two confusing Roger Corman english-language re-edits [Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet with Basil Rathbone added, and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, with mermaids scenes directed by Peter Bogdonavich.] Finally able to track down the original Russian version recently, I was able to fully appreciate the ambitious scope and production values. The forest is truly primeval in its detailed beauty, Robot John both heroic and sad in his dedication, and the ending poetic and lyrical. Non-U.S. science fiction films are doubly exotic, and this one is classic fare.