Mars () is a 1968

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science education and

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film produced and directed by

Pavel Klushantsev Pavel Vladimirovich Klushantsev (; 25 February 1910 – 27 April 1999) was a Russian cameraman of higher category (1939), film director, producer, screenwriter and author who worked during the Soviet Era. He was a Meritorious Artist of Russia ( ...

Story

Like the previous film ''

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'' produced by Klushantsev, the film ''Mars'' was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of

life on Mars The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to the planet's proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no conclusive evidence of past or present life has been found on Mars. Cumulative evidence suggests that ...

and what forms it might take, of

Martian canals During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were "canals" on the planet Mars. These were a network of long straight lines in the equatorial regions from 60° north to 60° south latitude on Mars, observ ...

and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on Mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.

Crew

* writer and producer — P. Klushantsev * operator — A. Klimov. * art directors — B. Alexandrov, I. Egorov * animation director — Z. Gaylan * special effects operators — A. Romanenko, L. Doctorov * special effects artist — Z. Mironova * composer — S. Pozhlakov * recordist — P. Levitin * assistant director — A. Belyavskaya, I. Pavlyuchenko * operator assistants — A. Gubachev, E. Ostriches * mounting — T. Berstakova * editor — I. Zyrin * directors painting — I. Gol'din, G. Novi

Consultants

* Academician AN USSR
N. P. Barabashov * Dr. biol. sci
A. C. Grushvickij * Dr. biol. sci
L. K. Lozina-Lozinskij * Dr. geol.-min. sci
C. A. Cerpuhov * Dr. tech. sci
M. K. Tihonravov * Dr. med. sci
C. A. Yazdovskij * cand. biol. sci
L. Ju. Budancev * cand. phys.-math. sci
A. N. Dadaev * cand. phys.-math. sci
K. A. Ljubarskij

Art features

Filmed in typical Klushantsev manner, and synthesizes the two genres — science education movies and science-fiction fantasy. In the film both

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and

special effects Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the fictional events in a story or virtual world. ...

techniques are applied.

External links

Mars (1968)
entry at IMDB * Е. В. Харитонов, А. В. Щербак-Жуков (2003):

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