ENDODESSA FILM STUDIO
Special thanks to
Academician R. SAGDEYEV
USSR Pilot-Cosmonauts
A. LEONOV and V. SEVASTYANOV
Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
I. SHKLOVSKY and N. KARDASHEV
for discussing the problem of
extraterrestrial civilizations
I would say that, scientifically,
the most difficult issue is
the question of how life originated
from the most elementary forms.
It will take us a lot of time
to have this question answered.
But assuming that life originated, one
way or another, on the Earth,
why couldn't it also originate on one
of the Universe's countless planets?
As our prehistory, as the civilization
of intelligent man,
it's the knowledge of our environment,
the knowledge of ourselves,
the knowledge of nature,
the knowledge of man's inner self,
the knowledge of the laws of natural
science, of the social laws.
And we, having not yet completed
that process of cognition,
suddenly begin
(are we interested in it?)
to study another nature
and, perhaps, another society
in other civilizations.
I don't share the opinion of the most
of my colleagues who believe in
the total inhabitation of outer space
by intelligent creatures, among others.
I think that life, intelligent life,
is an exceptionally rare phenomenon,
and the closest seats of intellect
are removed from us by distances
of hundreds or millions of
thousands of light-years.
I think that there exist
super-civilizations
and that we can discover them
as early as the 20th century.
Who are they, those intelligent
creatures?
Are they better than we? Or worse?
Where will they come from?
We can only fantasize.
And what does it all look like?
Painting, art, cinema
allow us to materialize
our fantasies.
And the film
you will see
is one of the attempts to tell the
mankind how it's going to happen.
Only time will tell.
ORION'S LOOP
Screenplay by Alexei LEONOV
Valentin SELIVANOV
Directed by
Vasily LEVIN
Cinematography by V. AVLOSHENKO
E. GUBSKY, Yu. LEMESHEV
Production Designers
L. TOKAREVA, A. TOKAREV
Music by
A. ZATSEPIN
Director assistant
S.TSIVILKO
Chief Consultant
Academician R. SAGDEYEV
USSR GOSKINO Symphony Orchestra
Conductor — V. VASILYEV
Cast:
Belov — Leonid BAKSHTAYEV
Goris — Gennady SHKURATOV
Tamarkin — Anatoly MATESHKO
Sagansky — Vitaly DOROSHENKO
Dementyeva — Ludmila SMORODINA
Krechet — Anatoly AZO
Old man — Givi TOKHADZE
Woman — Liya ELIAVA
Eya — Yelena KOKALEVSKAYA
With A. GRADOV,
Yu. MANSHAGIN, B. RUDNEV
On the outskirts of the Solar system,
an unknown phenomenon
appeared 2 months ago.
The few available videos, taken from
spaceships, convince us
that the starships get
into a powerful radiation field.
The astronaut's brain
is greatly affected.
The radiation has the shape of a ring,
with its source located in the area
of FU Star in the Orion Constellation.
The spaceships perish
in the energy loop.
It originated in the area of Planet
Diana near the Ephor Star
and in two-years time will reach
the Earth.
We can claim
that the Earth is in danger.
We called that mysterious phenomenon
Orion's Loop.
It remains unclear what exactly
is the cause of the people's deaths.
This is the footage from the Roma
starship.
You've just seen the return
of Italian astronauts.
They had penetrated Orion's Loop
farther than anyone before them.
They're now
in a neurological center
and cannot tell anything
either about how they were saved
or about the cause of the accident.
It can be supposed
that their nervous system
is being destroyed by an unusually
powerful radiation of unknown nature.
Please, Andrei Semyonovich.
It's urgent that we should
solve this riddle.
The Institute of Space Problems
designed a ship of a Phaethon type,
with the biological protection from
all known kinds of radiation.
To send up a craft in outer space with
people onboard is sheer madness!
Considering unpredictable conditions,
I suggest sending a crew of robots.
Our institute has