Planeta bur (1962)

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

Director:

Pavel Klushantsev

Writers:

Aleksandr Kazantsev, Pavel Klushantsev

Stars:

Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Gennadi Vernov

Cast

Cast overview:
Vladimir Yemelyanov	...	Ilya Vershinin
Georgi Zhzhyonov	...	Bobrov
Gennadi Vernov	...	Alyosha
Yuriy Sarantsev	...	Scherba
Georgiy Teykh	...	Kern
Kyunna Ignatova	...	Masha

Storyline

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

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Plot Keywords:

venus | cosmonaut | swamp fever | fever | prehistoric times | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Released in the US in 1965 (TV syndication) as Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), dubbed in English. New, brief scenes with Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue were shot and edited onto the Russian original.

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Alternate Versions

Three years after this film was released in the United States in a edited and dubbed version as "Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet" (1965), the dubbed Russion footage was agained re-edited by director Peter Bogdanovich and released as "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" (1968). For this second U.S. version, the American insert shots of Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue were removed and new insert shots featuring Mamie Van Doren and other actresses (as inhabitants of Venus) were added. Bogdanovich also did the narration as if he were one of the Cosmonauts telling the story in flashback. The famous shot of the Venusian reflected in the pool of water was also removed.

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Connections

Featured in The Star Dreamer (2002)

User Reviews

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.

Details

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

14 April 1962 (Soviet Union)

Also Known As:

Planeta Burg

Company Credits

Production Co:

Leningrad Popular Science Film Studio

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1