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I Was a Satellite of the Sun

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Language
  
Russian

Director
  
Yuri Merkulov

Country
  
Soviet Union

I Was a Satellite of the Sun movie scenes A handout picture shows Coronal Mass Ejection as viewed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7 2011 REUTERS NASA SDO Handout

Release date
  
1959 (1959) (USSR)

I was a satellite of the sun 1959


I Was a Satellite of the Sun - (Russian: Я был спутником Солнца) Soviet feature dramatic science-fiction film of 1959 with animation elements.

Contents

Story

The story is told as an autobiography of the astronaut character Andrew, and set in the future, where space flight is common.

Scientist/Astronaut Petrovich pioneers the way to the Sun, but his spacecraft is never heard from again. Later, Andrew's laboratory investigates means of protection from deadly radiation. Andrew repeats Petrovich's journey, and risks his life to rescue an orbiting science laboratory, which holds the solution to the problem.

Altered matter near the Sun is responsible for deadly radiation.

Animated scenes explain orbital dynamics, auroras, solar radiation, and other scientific topics.

The first panel reads:

The film is dedicated to the people of Soviet science, engineers and workers who created a new planet of the solar system.

They took the solar satellite from the world of fiction to the orbit of reality.

Cast

  • P. Makhotin - Andrew, a young scientist
  • V. Ymelyanov - Igor Petrovich, Andrew's father
  • G. Shamshurin - Sergei Ivanovich
  • A. Shamshurin - Andrew as young child

    • In episodes

  • N. Vishnevskaya
  • G. Vitsin
  • K. Erofeev
  • P. Samarin

    • Uncredited

  • Felix Jaworski - astronaut
  • Mikhail Mayorov

    • Crew

  • Writers: V. Kapitanovsky,
    V. Shreyberg
  • Producer: V. Morgenstern
  • Operators: O. Samutsevich,
    G. Lyakhovich
  • Music: A Sevastiyanov
  • Artist: L. Chibisov
  • Editor: G. Fradkin
  • Director: Yu. Merkulov
  • Art Director: L. Model'
  • Oprator: M. Lruya
  • Recording: B. Pekker
  • Conductor: V. Smirnov
  • Production manager: B. Rodin
  • Animation: Soyuzmultfilm studios
  • Animation
  • V. Al'tshullev
  • L. Akimov
  • M. Galkin
  • A. Klopotoviskij
  • V. Nikitchenko
  • A. Sokolov
  • V. Sholina
  • Yu. Xolin

    • Scientific consultants

  • A. M. Kasatkin
  • V. N. Komarov
  • The parts of the film correspond to a 300m maximum length for 35mm film rolls standardized in the Soviet Union; the seven parts of this film amount to 1816.7 m.

    • References

    I Was a Satellite of the Sun Wikipedia
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