Russian Sci-Fi invades Secret Movie Night

almost can't wait for Tuesday night. It's finally time to screen what i love the most: space travel, robots, giant monsters, alien worlds. what more could you ask for?

It's time for Pavel Klushantsev's 1962 Russian sci-fi/thriller "Planeta Bur" ("Storm Planet"),featuring a spaceship full of brave cosmonauts, the planet Venus, a robot named John and lots of the aforementioned monsters.

as far as I'm concerned, this film has it all.

so yea, this film has been ripped off countless times, by the likes of Roger Corman and many others. But this is the real deal. A very well written and prescient work, surprisingly so perhaps, although it's not without its communist leanings.
Nevertheless, it set new standards at the time for it's imaginative storytelling and inventive special effects. For me, it's the Communist answer to Fred Wilcox's 1956 "Forbidden Planet". Both way ahead of their time in terms of effects, storytelling and manner of conveying that human element so often lacking in modern sci-fi filmmaking.