Orion’s Loop (1981)
aka The Orion Loop
aka Phaeton An Erde
aka Petlya Oriona
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union | Director: Vasili Levin
Language: Russian | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 81mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv – 1480×1080 – 23.976fps – 3.63gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230634/
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.
Thank you for this! It looks great.
NB: This verison is without the 3-minute documentary prologue with a professor, two cosmonauts, and two astronomers expressing their opinions on the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. (In case anyone, like me, has a less-good but slightly longer file of this film. And that longer and this better looking are both Russian language with English subtitles and German titles.)
All thanks to the Duck, I have discovered more than a few of these Soviet era SF films right here, with this being an accepted and often approved for production genre in an otherwise often ideologically rigid system. Their being SF could allow them to detour around some of the usual control and strictures. A lot of these films remain pretty obscure in the West, and can be difficult to find. So your presenting them is much appreciated.
For anyone who may be interested, I wanted to mention an awesome reference to SF and related films, throughout history and across the globe. https://rivetsontheposterblog.wordpress.com
It covers an impressive “encyclopedia” of them, along with critical commentary — including this one and other Soviet era titles — though it couldn’t round up ALL of them. (You may have to search this reference under either the English or the original language title.) I’m unaware of anything else available online quite like ‘Rivets’. It was surely a labor of love. The author of this work died in 2024. Since the site is not likely to survive online like this indefinitely, a searchable archival copy has been stowed over at Archive.org. Best that could be done to add some longevity insurance.