Credits
Distributed by
Sony Pictures
Production companies
Vodorod Pictures
Art Pictures Studio
Hype Film
National Media Group Studio
STS
Directed by
Egor Abramenko
Written by
Oleg Malovichko
Andrei Zolotarev
Produced by
Mikhail Vrubel
Aleksandr Andryushchenko
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Ilya Stewart
Murad Osmann
Pavel Burya
Vyacheslav Murugov
Alina Tyazhlova
Michael Kitaev
Ilya Jincharadze
Starring
Oksana Akinshina
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Pyotr Fyodorov
Anton Vasiliev
Cinematography
Maxim Zhukov
Edited by
Aleksandr Puzyryov
Egor Tarasenko
Music by
Oleg Karpachev
Synopsis
In 1983, during the last hot period of the Cold War, two Russian cosmonauts engaged in an orbital research mission experienced something inexplicable while returning to Earth: they see something moving outside their ship. The spacecraft malfunctions on re-entry and crashes in Kazakhstan, and only one of the cosmonauts, Konstantin, survives. He is taken to an isolated military facility, where Dr. Tatyana Klimova, a young psychiatrist under review for her controversial methods in psychiatry, is brought in, recruited by the officer in charge, Colonel Semiradov. She is not told the real reason for Konstantin's quarantine, but she soon discovers that the cosmonaut brought back an extraterrestrial life-form inside his own body without knowing it himself. The creature comes out during the night, while its host is asleep. Colonel Semiradov reveals to her that she is here to determine how to separate Konstantin and the creature, since they seem to have developed a completely symbiotic relationship, with the creature living in the esophagus of the cosmonaut and benefiting from his nutrients, while Konstantin has made an impossible recovery from his injuries received after the crash-landing. As they make their escape, they are ambushed by Semiradov, who sends a response team after them. Tatyana is injured, and Konstantin asks her for the syringe. Upon injecting himself, the alien emerges and kills the team. Tatyana and Konstantin run away, but they do not make it far before Konstantin collapses. Tatyana realizes that Konstantin cannot survive without the alien, as they have become completely symbiotic, and she surrenders when Semiradov catches up with them. The Colonel has brought the now heavily injured creature in order to force it inside Konstantin: The latter however has the creature kill Semiradov and his soldiers, setting Tatyana and himself finally free. However, as the authorities descend on them, alerted to the monstrous experimentations of Semiradov, a revived Konstantin shoots himself in order to kill the creature, and himself alongside it. Sometime later, Tatyana adopts Konstantin's son, and it is revealed she herself lived in an orphanage as a young girl.
5 окт 2024
