Inhabited Island 2: The Battle (Obitaemyy Ostrov: Shvatka)
Fedor Bondarchuk’s Inhabited Island is divided on two parts. First Inhabited Island was already in theaters, the second one is coming on 23th April. The movie is based on Strugatsky Brothers’ novel and tells the story of Earth’s 20 y.o. boy Maxim, who got onto the totalitarian planet Saraksh in 2157.
Short synopsis:
The year 2157. The blossom times for the human civilization. Pilots of the Freelance Search Group enjoy interstellar travelling. A Russian spacecraft, piloted by a 22 year old Maxim Kammerer, crashes on the distant inhabited Saraksh planet. After long years of a nuclear war, an environmental crisis reigns over the planet, the society is overburdened with social problems, and the established peace is quite shaky. The brave astronaut will explore a mysterious land governed by the Unknown Fathers who are five anonymous rulers manipulating the inhabitants consciousness using special emitters. There Maxim will meet new friends, make enemies, find his love and, after getting through dangerous trials, hunger, mortal hazards and losses, will lead a rebel movement challenging the five greedy rulers.
The trailer of Inhabited Island 2: The Battle (Obitaemyy Ostrov: Shvatka) with English subtitles in HD quality:
Date of release: 23 April, 2009
Russian title: Îáèòàåìûé Îñòðîâ: Ñõâàòêà
Transliteration: Obitaemyj Ostrov: Shvatka
Translated title: The Inhabited Island: The Battle
Script: Eduard Volodarsky / Marina and Sergei Dyachenko
Director of photography: Maxim Osadchy
Concept designer: Kirill Murzin
Second unit director: Rezo Gigineishvili
Second unit director of photography: Petr Brate, Artem Aksenenko, Boris Levkovich, Ivan Shurkhovetsky
Art director: Pavel Novikov
Dress designer: Tatyana Mamedova
Make-up designer: Dmitry Kirillov
Computer graphics superviser: Leonid Volosatov
Special effects director: Vladimir Karpovich
Composer: Yuri Poteyenko
Cast: Vasili Stepanov, Julia Snigir, Peter Fedorov, Aleksei Serebryakov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Mikhail Yevlanov, Sergei Garmash, Gosha Kutsenko, Andrei Merzlikin, Anna Mikhalkova, Yuri Tsurilo, Ignati Akrachkov, Sergei Barkovsky, Maxim Sukhanov, Yevgeni Sidikhin, Kirill Pirogov, Aleksei Gorbunov, Alexander Feklistov and others
Production: ÑTÑ Television Network, Art Pictures Group, Non-stop Production Studio
| Editor's rating: 7/10 |