1990 | Director: Vladimir Potapov | Russian | IMDB In a forest not far from a small provincial Soviet town, falls a black sphere of extraterrestrial origin. An alien force posseses the minds of those it comes in contact with, suppressing their will and slowly infiltrating the local community. A large radio telescope outside town is its target, a means of signalling a mass invasion of Earth...
This movie originally premiered on Soviet TV in 3 parts, which when watched together add up to an epic three and a half hours of brilliance. It's basically a very simple body snatchers plot presented in a very stylish manner. Every single shot in this film is exquisitely framed and heavily feature muted sepia tones, with occasional dollops of bright red. The shots are usually very long and often in slow motion, accompanied by a very reverberated sparse soundtrack, with very little dialogue at all. All of this adds up to create an atmosphere so thick you can carve it. This one is pretty hard to track down but is available on various small corners of the internet, with subs available at opensubtitles.org. If you enjoy very slow paced, moody features, watching this is worth the hunt.
This movie originally premiered on Soviet TV in 3 parts, which when watched together add up to an epic three and a half hours of brilliance. It's basically a very simple body snatchers plot presented in a very stylish manner. Every single shot in this film is exquisitely framed and heavily feature muted sepia tones, with occasional dollops of bright red. The shots are usually very long and often in slow motion, accompanied by a very reverberated sparse soundtrack, with very little dialogue at all. All of this adds up to create an atmosphere so thick you can carve it. This one is pretty hard to track down but is available on various small corners of the internet, with subs available at opensubtitles.org. If you enjoy very slow paced, moody features, watching this is worth the hunt.
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