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The Starship Pushkin, boldly going where no man has gone before, finds an abandoned vessel in deep space filled with the decaying bodies of humanoids. There is, however, one surviving member of the crew, a gynoid named Niya (an eye-popping performance by Yelena Metyolkina), who seeks the help of earthlings to restore her now severely polluted home planet of Dessa to its natural splendor. Richard Viktorov's collaboration with sci-fi writer Kir Bulychyov has undeniable camp appeal, with its abundance of mod leisure-wear outfits, cosmic mercenaries and bionic women (not to mention a humanoid midget capitalist, the villain responsible for running Dessa into the ground), and it was pitched to the 1982 Soviet teen audience as skillfully as the Star Trek film series was pitched to its American counterpart. However, the deliriously emotional STARS (known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans as HUMANOID WOMAN) is also visually ravishing and, in its own unique way, deeply affecting. We will be screening the film's restored version, made in 2001 under the supervision of the late director's son.
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