Nebo Zovyot

The copy of this that I watched was on Plex On Demand and was so dark and washed out that I couldn't see what was going on. That's really no fault of the movie itself, but since it was an American International Pictures' version of a Soviet film, it was also undoubtedly edited within an inch of its life. The movie tried to relay that the stakes were high in this post-Nuclear War space race between the "Northern Hemis" and the "Southern Hemis" (i.e., U.S. and USSR). The scientific crew of each country save each other after a failed mission to Mars. It's pretty clear that this is Soviet propaganda of the gentler kind. A message that the U.S. and USSR should cooperate to make for a better world. It's an exceedingly dull movie, lacking any characters with even a trace of personality. Even though I could barely see what was going on, there were some neat miniatures and matte paintings. There were a couple of monsters on a space rock that were fighting each other that looked almost Lovecraftian, but again, I could hardly tell what was happening.