I Was a Satellite of the Sun

1959 film directed by Yuri Merkulov
  • 1959 (1959) (USSR)
Running time
67 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

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

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'
  • Operator: 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

Related facts

  • The parts of the film correspond to a 300m maximum length for 35mm film rolls standardized in the Soviet Union;[1] the seven parts of this film amount to 1816.7 m.

References

  1. ^ Film Parts entry from Russian Wikipedia

External links

  • «I Was a Satellite of the Sun» on YouTube (Russian)
  • Ya byl sputnikom solntsa (1959) at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Я был спутником Солнца Archived 2014-12-23 at the Wayback Machine article at "Советская кинофантастика"
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Soyuzmultfilm feature films
1940s–1950s
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  • The Humpbacked Horse (1947)
  • The Night Before Christmas (1951)
  • The Scarlet Flower (1952)
  • The Snow Maiden (1952)
  • The Enchanted Boy (1955)
  • The Twelve Months (1956)
  • The Snow Queen (1957)
  • Beloved Beauty (1958)
  • The Adventures of Buratino (1959)
1960s–1970s
1980s–1990s2010s
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Co-productions
  • I Was a Satellite of the Sun (1959)
  • Twelve Months (1980)
  • Maria, Mirabela (1981)
  • Swan Lake (1981)
  • The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (1987)
  • The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands (2018)
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