TREASURES OF SOVIET ANIMATION, VOL. 1

Searingly psychedelic animation from behind the Iron Curtain, with indelible images on par with SOLARIS, STALKER and YELLOW SUBMARINE.

THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET (1981, dir. Roman Kachanov)
A trio of intrepid space explorers in the year 2181 set off on a rocket ship to collect rare aliens for the Moscow Zoo. While galaxy-hopping from one wildly colorful planet to the next, they’re immediately drawn into an amazingly convoluted mystery involving a sinister doctor, a nearly-extinct Chatter-bird and two legendary missing cosmonauts.

THE RETURN (1980, dir. Vladimir Tarasov)
A sleeping cosmonaut hurtles unaware towards his home planet -- but will he awake in time?

THE PASS (1988, dir. Vladimir Tarasov)
“On this night, Oleg was on duty near the fence…he sensed the emptiness and the routine. Three times people went to the Pass. It was all in vain.” So begins Tarasov’s sublime masterpiece in which a group of terrified human survivors on an alien world try to reach their derelict spacecraft years after it crashed.