Steineded
How sad is this?
Cleveronix
A different way of telling a story
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Aubrey Hackett
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
rodrig58
A bit long but worth seeing. The story of Kir Bulychyov and Richard Viktorov is interesting and honorable by the same Richard Viktorov along with Nikolay Viktorov. It made me think of Tarkovski, "Solaris" and "Stalker". Yelena Metyolkina is impeccable in the role of the Niyya clone. And all the other actors are very credible and convincing. The film has a little humor, thanks to several characters. The decorations and the costumes are very well done. And Aleksey Rybnikov's music is super special.
Eric Stevenson
It might be kind of hard for me to fairly judge this movie seeing as how I'm pretty sure the version I saw on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" was a pretty low quality one. I guess I'm just too lazy to look for the full version. It was one of their longest episodes, okay? They must have shown everything they could! This movie tells the story of a robot trying to live on Earth, but then she goes into space or something. It was just really confusing. The quality makes me hard to believe it was made in 1981. It looks more like the 1960's.A movie like this just seems to go on too long. I'm just not used to films of this type going on this long. The costumes in this are really bad. The robots especially look terrible. It looks more like Halloween costumes. I admit there's a good scene or two. When the woman is dodging the bullets, it actually looks pretty cool. I guess the designs are a little interesting, but it doesn't amount to much. It's just not worth following. *1/2
Zumbs
This movie begins when a spaceship discover another, derelict spaceship of unknown design and origin. They mount a salvage operation and discover that the crew are human of appearance but with considerable genetic differences. All but one (a woman) are dead.Next, a group of scientists and officials discuss what to do with this alien called Neeya. They all want to study her, but should she be allowed to study humans as well? She doesn't seem to be able to communicate but has strong mental/telekinetic abilities. They decide to let her live in the house of one scientist with his family, under close surveillance.As the story progresses we discover that she has a control center in her brain that allow others to take control over her - she has been designed like some sort of robot! Added to this story is a cast of interesting characters, a very unique alien, and lots of twists and turns to the main story.The special effects are not as good as one have grown accustomed to from recent top-of-the-line Hollywood blockbusters, but they are okay, and manages to avoid being cheesy (which is the most important in my humble view).All in all it is an excellent science fiction movie. I saw it in the theaters at a recent film festival in a restored version (from 2001 with English subtitles) and it was well worth the time and money. I give it 7/10 and recommend it to you all.
Alexey Seleznev
"Per Aspera Ad Astra" is really excellent film. It contains a lot of poetry elements. It is very sorry that American lookers cannot view this movie with the correct translation. The author of screenplay Kir Bulychov is a famous Soviet sci-fi writer. He is author of such books as "Girl From The Earth", "The Last War", "Wonders in Guslyar", "Witches' Cave", "The Settlement" etc. And fine music of composer Alexey Rybnikov. In 1970's in USSR Rybnikov was known as author of music for some children's movies. Some musical fragments from "Per Aspera Ad Astra" were used in famous Rybnikov's opera "Juno and Avos". The work of creators of this film was awarded in 1982 with State Prize of Soviet Union.
