Per Aspera Ad Astra/Through the Thorns to the Stars (1981), Richard Viktorov, new version, in Russian with English subtitles. Soviet film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a novel by Kir Bulychov. Music by Alexey Rybnikov (original score) Sergei Skripka (conductor) Yelena Meteyolkina as Niya Uldis Lieldidz as Cadet Stepan Lebedev Vadim Ledogorov as Sergei Lebedev Yelena Fadeyeva as Maria Pavlovna Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as Petr Petrovich Nadezhda Semyontsova as Professor Nadezhda Ivanova Aleksandr Lazarev as Professor Klimov Aleksandr Mikhajlov as Captain Dreier Boris Shcherbakov as Navigator Kolotun Igor Ledogorov as Ambassador Rakan Igor Yasulovich as Torki Gleb Strizhenov as Glan Vladimir Fyodorov as Turanchoks Yevgeni Karelskikh In the mysterious depths of the universe patrol starship, "Pushkin" has found a spaceship of unknown design earthlings. Aboard was a laboratory for cloning of living organisms. Children are like one another as two drops of water were dead. Only one girl, silent and frightened, was still alive. Niya, looks a lot like a person was born in an unusual way - artificially grown from living cells and possess unusual properties can instantly move in space, to move the view of objects, it was lightning fast response, extraordinary strength. Back on Earth, scientists try to decide whether the woman Niya is human or an artificially created being with no memories of who she is. The scientist Sergei Lebedev offers to house her at his home in the countryside. There Niya comes to discover many aspects of the human world for the first time. A slow connection grows between her and Lebedev’s son Stepan. After seeing a tv broadcast about ambassadors come to ask help for their dying world Dessa, Niya realises that this is where she comes from and must return. She sneaks aboard the spaceship Astra where Stepan has just been assigned as a space cadet as it is launched. Discovered, she is accepted aboard the mission. They must conduct an emergency detour and then return an alien ambassador home to the planet Ocean. Reaching Dessa, they become involved in helping the inhabitants of the world deal with pollution created by the industrialist Turanchoks that is threatening to make the planet uninhabitable.

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