Movie Details
Original Language:Russian
Observatory
DirectorAlexander Khudokon
23 minDocumentary
Plot
The camera glides over the bluegreen mountains and suddenly picks out a silver dome on a small plateau one of the telescopes of the Special Astrophysical Observatory the largest and most important astronomical center in Russia It was built half a century agoaway from the bright city lights closer to the sky in the mountains of the Western Caucasus in KarachayCherkessia A few kilometers below is a village with panel houses a school a club and an administration In a small world lost in space and time whether it is the Soviet seventies or the future of the Strugatsky novels modern artists come with their works The film unobtrusively confronts oppositesphysicists and lyricists schoolchildren and grayhaired scientists the dome of the telescope and the tent of the temple artifacts and ancient mountains But the main opposition is the small Earth and the boundless Cosmos to which people listen with bated breath
