Red Cynic

«Dark Planet». Red Cynic's Movie Review (7x10)

Air date: Dec 29, 2018

It's New Year's Eve again and Bondarchuk again. Again Strugatsky and again "original author's approach". Again a movie adaptation and again an extremely difficult and time-consuming material to sort out (you decide whether this is worth two months of work). This time in front of us - "The Inhabited Island." One of the most famous and, according to some, a work of genius. "The diamond of Soviet fiction." "The very essence of all futuristic notions of the USSR." Is it so? How can such a thing be screened in post-Soviet Russia? Let's try to find out... by evaluating everything that had to be evaluated...