Dark Planet

Original title: Obitaemyy ostrov

20092009
TV-PGTV-PG
1h 55min

Vasiliy Stepanov in Obitaemyy ostrov (2009)

Screening of the famous fantasy novel by Strugatskie brothers The Inhabited Island

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A space traveler from the Earth of the 22th century - without wars, poverty and oppression - crashes on an unknown planet. Politically and economically that planet similar to the totalitaria... Read allA space traveler from the Earth of the 22th century - without wars, poverty and oppression - crashes on an unknown planet. Politically and economically that planet similar to the totalitarian human states of the 20th century.A space traveler from the Earth of the 22th century - without wars, poverty and oppression - crashes on an unknown planet. Politically and economically that planet similar to the totalitarian human states of the 20th century.

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Awards
- 5 wins & 8 nominations

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Dark Planet: Rebellion

5.0

Dark Planet: Rebellion

Dark Planet

Dark Planet

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Attraction

5.6

Dnevnoy dozor

6.5

Night Watch

6.4

Gogol. Nachalo

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Dark World

4.6

Territoriya

6.4

Monsters: Dark Continent

4.3

Monsters: Dark Continent

Dark World 2: Equilibrium

4.0

Dark World 2: Equilibrium

Black Lightning

5.7

Black Lightning

On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world... —egalogs

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Trivia
Director/producer/actor Fedor Bondarchuk regards the role of Procurator as the best role he ever played. On the other hand, he said in an interview that he was so outraged by Vasiliy Stepanov's bad acting that he had a nervous breakdown and recovered only about 18 months after the filming. Stepanov's acting was so bad that the editors had to combine many cuts when editing the film, Bondarchuk also said. Stepanov, who was not yet even a theatrical school student when he got the part, admitted himself that "the crew had a tough time with [him]" and avoided a straightforward answer when asked if he thought whether the film was good.

Goofs
Red armored car, which Maxim steals near the final, was designed without a door. So the crew had to cut the hatch in the tank's plating. When Guy Gaal knocks the car, it can be seen that the hatch cover is actually made of wood.

Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator: The year 2157, the Noon of Mankind. Armed with the Great Theory of Upbringing, people have forgotten about wars, hunger and terrorism. Nature lives again. A breakthrough in medicine has set people free from illnesses, allowing them to use hidden resources of the human body. Earthlings are reclaiming distant planets. New generations have risen, for whom search in deep space is a routine matter. Young earthlings are brave, strong and naive. They think they are capable of everything.

Connections
Featured in Arkadiy Strugatskiy v Kanske (2016)

Top review

7/10

Scary truth

Those who have watched the film may remember the following episode – Guy and Rada are sitting in front of TV during the Entertainment Hour and goggling happily. What is entertainment on Saraksh is visions and dreams of ‘psychotic’ individuals.

It struck me that ALL the film industry the way we know it is projecting nothing but visions and dreams of certain individuals, too(and sometimes these visions and images are no better than those shown in ‘Obitaemyy ostrov’). And book fiction is the same. So what’s the difference between Earth and Saraksh in terms of culture then?

And the towers are here, too. Look around – here are the TV towers and radio towers. They project these visions and dreams to the same effect as on Saraksh. Scary, isn’t it? Where are we?

On the other hand, where would the world be without this day-dreaming and wool-gathering? Do culture and a sort of hypnotic suggestion go hand in hand? How free in our minds are we really?

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Budget
- $29,500,000 (estimated)
Gross worldwide
- $23,772,559

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Runtime
- 1h 55min
Color
- Color

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