Moscow-Cassiopeia

Moscow-Cassiopeia is a Soviet comic science fiction film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak. Followed by Teens in the Universe (second part, 1975). Synopsis From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio signals of intelligent beings from a planet of the star system Shedar in the Cassiopeia constellation. A project is set up, proposed by the young inventor Vitya Sereda, to send a spaceship to reach the planet - but the flight will last for decades, so the crew of the spaceship ЗАРЯ or Zarya (an acronym for Spaceship (zvezdolet) Annihilation Relativistical Nuclear (yaderniy), also meaning "dawn"), is to be recruited from teenage students. The project is all carefully thought out but student Fyodor Lobanov stows away aboard the starship and unwittingly causes it to transcend the speed of light and so reaching its target 27 years ahead of schedule... Cast Innokenty Smoktunovsky as S.S.E. (Special Service Executive) Vasili Merkuryev as academician Blagovidov Lev Durov as academician Filatov Yuri Medvedev as academician Ogon-Duganovsky Pyotr Merkuryev as academician Kurochkin