Pavel Klushantsev
1910 - 1999The Star Dreamer
Sonja Vesterholt, Mads Baastrup
Pavel Klushantsev, Robert Skotak
The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless - long before anyone else. He went on to redefine the science fiction genre and influence the way Hollywood made their science fiction films, including the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Master, Robert Skotak, a man who spent years trying to track Klushantsev down
The Star Dreamer
Марс
Pavel Klushantsev
Like the previous film Luna produced by Klushantsev, the film Mars was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of life on Mars and what forms it might take, of Martian canals and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.
Mars
Дорога к звездам
Pavel Klushantsev
Georgi Solovyov, Georgi Kulbush
This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.
Road to the Stars
Meteority
Pavel Klushantsev
Stones from the sky - tangible pieces of other worlds. After millions of years of wandering in the darkness and the cold expanses of space, meteorites find shelter in the windows of museums. By studying meteorites, scientists know their origins, how they get to the Earth, and from which substances they are comprised. This film also explores the attitude towards this phenomenon in different nations through different times in history.
Meteors
Тайна вещества
Pavel Klushantsev
A popular science film on the physical properties of matter and nuclear physics, which simply and clearly presents complex phenomena. From Democritus and alchemists to the first nuclear power plant, and dreams of nuclear ships and spacecrafts.
The Mystery of Matter
