Petlya Oriona

An excellent science-fiction movie from the Soviet era.

The plot is smart and engaging, featuring plenty of unexpected twists and turns. It's basically an alien contact story mixed with an adventure story, with loads of mystery.

The film is beautiful to look at, and the special effects are pretty good. Sure, some of them give off that "classic Doctor Who" vibe, but the non-gravity stuff is pretty effective, as are some enjoyable hallucination sequences.

Soviet SF (and East European movies of that period) are sometimes thought of as little more than heavy handed propaganda pieces. Sure there's some ideology here, but even the most ardent anti-communist is unlikely to be bothered by it. "Science is good, countries should help each other"; it's that kind of stuff. (Even the philosophizing general in the prologue isn't so bad.)

In short, Orion's Loop is smart, atmospheric, it looks great, and it's a darn good piece of science-fiction.

Well worth your time.

These Sci-Fi conceived in Iron Curtain generally speaking is hard to swallow, due they used to a kind of metaphoric offering in mostly of their productions, also usually dealing with abstract issues, to worsen Petlya Oriona has a confusing narrative, almost encrypted, the plot is quite acceptable for a Sci-Fi, however the whole packet is far away to be reasonable.

Due a tight budge the producers implied a sloppy inner spaceship, whoever masterminded it was logged out of real life in a tight environment of a spaceship, it has countless of mismatches as many couch at meeting room, also all king of test tube and sample vessels at laboratory all these loose there, heavy ladders, great wide spaces everywhere, anyway a bad conceived scenario to far off journey into outer space.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 5.5.