Planet of Storms 1962
Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.
Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.
This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.
Like the previous film Luna produced by Klushantsev, the film Mars was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of life on Mars and what forms it might take, of Martian canals and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.
Science fiction/documentary film about man's voyages to the moon.
Stones from the sky - tangible pieces of other worlds. After millions of years of wandering in the darkness and the cold expanses of space, meteorites find shelter in the windows of museums. By studying meteorites, scientists know their origins, how they get to the Earth, and from which substances they are comprised. This film also explores the attitude towards this phenomenon in different nations through different times in history.
Follows the origin of geometry in Ancient Greece, about the contribution to the development of science made by Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Eudoxus.
A respectable man tries to charm a girl, but she sees that he is smoking and draws her own conclusions. This animation was commissioned by the Ministry of Health of the USSR.
Follows the Second Soviet Himalayan Expedition, which made the first traverse in history of all four peaks of the Kanchenjunga mountain range.
Follows the theory of painting and its components.
How the cockerel bruised the hen's eye.
A popular science film dedicated to research of the Earth from spacecraft, instilling a sense of empathy for protection of the Earth's natural resources.
A popular science film on the physical properties of matter and nuclear physics, which simply and clearly presents complex phenomena. From Democritus and alchemists to the first nuclear power plant, and dreams of nuclear ships and spacecrafts.