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• Actors: Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Gennadi Vernov, Yuri Sarantsev, Georgi Tejkh
• Directors: Pavel Klushantsev
• Format: NTSC, Subtitled, Full Screen, Import, Color
• Subtitles: English, Russian
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Lenfilm Video
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000CBQHYK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,663 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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ENGLISH subtitled DVD!!! Russia released, NTSC (USA and Canada), ALL REGION, FULL SCREEN. AUDIO OPTIONS: Dolby Digital 2.0 and Dolby Digital 5.1 RUSSIAN. Optional ENGLISH and RUSSIAN subtitles. SYNOPSIS: Three spacecraft set out for Venus, two arrive, one commanded by Caotain Masha (Ignatova) which remains in orbit and one that lands on the planet. The rest is a fast-paced adventure story, told with considerable humor, involving volcanic eruptions, giant animals and hostile plants. The sets are stunningly designed with outlandish color schemes rendering the uncanny alienness of the Venusian landscapes as well as the spectacular aspects of space travel itself. The appearance of a Venusian is wisely delayed to the very end, and even then only suggested as being "just like us". As in all popular space operas, there is a robot (called John) who occasionally goes out of control. Here he is given to talking gibberish and playing forties dance music, a more appropriate musical accompaniment to space fantasies than the monumentally majestic waltz of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The result is the best straightfoward, unpretentious sf space travel movie made in the USSR.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Planeta Burg.... Beware of imitation and plagiarism, May 21, 2010

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This review is from: Planeta Burg / Planet of Storms - (Russian Import - PAL DVD) (DVD)

The first example of Soviet science fiction that conquered the western market, the film has risen as a model for many subsequent productions, especially American. Despite the naivete of the whole, the film by Klushantsev is considered a true classic of science fiction cinema for saying a "structural location" on subsequent American productions focused on exploring the galaxy.
The disaster in space, the crash landing, the robot that become crazy, escape from the hostile planet are moments with clockwork punctuality will occupy the minds of writers and measure the talent and imagination of filmmakers to come (take for example the recent Red Planet ).?
Less experienced (and most intriguing) is instead better insight Klushantsev mind ,to symbolize two images of women (the real - Masha - the other fruit, perhaps, of the hallucination of an astronaut) the dialectic between technology and dream, between science and poetry.
Masha, who presides over and protects from the rescue operation, is a safe reference (a little 'mother) for men in scouting, the ghost Venus is a past irrevocably lost that instinct strongly regrets.Roger Corman bought the rights to distribute the film in America and pillaged the sequences to make other films (Prehistoric Voyage To The Planet, Voyage to the Planet of Women Prehistoric).In the United States is known under the titles: Cosmonauts on Venus, Planet of Storms, Planet of Tempests, Planeta Bur, Storm Planet.?
In Italy is also known as Planet of the storms. and i 7 navigatori dello spazio