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The Orion Loop

The Orion Loop

1980 1h 25mScience Fiction

A strange phenomenon has been noticed on the outskirts of our Solar system that quickly approaches the Earth. It's called "Orion's Loop." A spaceship with a crew of people and androids identical to them is sent to intercept the anomaly. But strange events start happening as the spaceship approaches the mysterious loop.

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Synopsis

A strange phenomenon has been noticed on the outskirts of our Solar system that quickly approaches the Earth. It's called "Orion's Loop." A spaceship with a crew of people and androids identical to them is sent to intercept the anomaly. But strange events start happening as the spaceship approaches the mysterious loop.

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Vasili LevinDirectorValentin SelivanovValentin SelivanovWriterAlexei LeonovAlexei LeonovWriterAleksandr ZatsepinAleksandr ZatsepinComposerVadim AvloshenkoVadim AvloshenkoCinematographyEduard HubskyiCinematography

Cast

Leonid BakshtayevLeonid BakshtayevPavel Belov - Commander
Gennadi ShkuratovGennadi ShkuratovAugust Goris - Navigator
Anatoli MateshkoAnatoli MateshkoMitya Tamarkin - Flight engineer
Vitaliy DoroshenkoAlexander Sagansky - Cybernetic
Liudmyla SmorodinaLiudmyla SmorodinaMaria Dementieva - Doctor
Yelena TonuntsYelena TonuntsEya - Alien
Roald SagdeyevSelf
Alexei LeonovAlexei LeonovIntroduction Speaker
Vitaliy SevastyanovSelf - Introduction Speaker
Iosif ShklovskiySelf
Nikolay KardashevSelf
Anatoliy AzoAnatoliy AzoNikolay Krechet - Project manager
Andrey GradovAndrey GradovAndrey Semyonovich
Givi TokhadzeGivi TokhadzeOld Man - Alien
Lia EliavaLia EliavaWoman - Anna Petrovna/Alien
Yury MenshaginYury MenshaginItalian Astronaut
Boris RudnevItalian Astronaut
Valentin KulikValentin KulikCommittee Member (Uncredited)

Director

Vasili Levin

Writers

Valentin Selivanov, Alexei Leonov

Release date

1 Dec 1980

Runtime

1h 25m

Studio

Odessa Film Studio

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

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