Igor Ledogorov Movies

This two-part science fiction saga begins with the android Niya (Yelena Metelkina) being discovered in a discarded spacecraft by a spaceship from Earth. She is brought back for scientific research and it is learned she is from the dying planet Dessa which has been polluted by the inhabitants. Part two finds Niya returning to Dessa in an attempt to save the people from extinction. Over 20 million fans saw this feature in the Soviet Union, the last film by noted science fiction director Richard Viktorov. It was first released in 1981 and awarded a USSR state prize the following year. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

In this romance, which was enormously popular in the former Soviet Union, Klava (Galina Polskich) is a woman with a history of disappointment in love. She is divorced from her first husband, by whom she had her now teenaged son. Her second lover, who was married to a dying woman, gave her custody of his daughter but has now left her. She makes the acquaintance of a sailor who has come to her southern seaport town to bury his mother. Because he knows no one in town, she is able to help him a great deal. As they work together, handling these intimate details, they come to care for each other, but each is careful not to become too close, too soon. Klava is too busy dealing with her son's turbulent emotions as he embarks on his first love affair and taking care of her adopted daughter to have time for romance. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This isn't an American International drive-in filler but instead a Russian science fiction effort, originally titled Otroki Vo Vselennoi. The protagonists are a group of clean-cut futuristic Soviet teens, who travel to a distant planet within the constellation Cassiopeia. They discover that the planet was enslaved by robots and they must help a handful of surviving humans to get rid of this totalitarian set-up. Teenagers in Space is a sequel to an earlier sci-fier, Moscow-Cassiopeia. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide