A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.
Length 177 minutes
Leonid Yarmolnik | Yuriy Tsurilo | Natalya Moteva | Aleksandr Chutko | Aleksandr Ilin | Evgeniy Gerchakov | Pyotr Merkuryev | Juris Laucinsh | Vytautas Paukste | Konstantin Vorobyov | Aleksandr Cherednik | Valentin Golubenko | Константин Быков | Yuriy Dumchev | Aleksandr Karpukhov | Alexandr Ronis | Anvar Libabov | Aleksandr Levit | Vladimir Rozygraev | Dmitri Karpov | Andrey Obarukhin | Ramis Ibragimov | Evgeniy Vazhenin | Valery Velichko | Mikhail Guro | Evgeny Mundum | Yury Nifontov | Anna Ovsyannikova | Aleksandr Orlovskiy | Marina Rokina | Vadim Smirnov | Vitaly Isakov | Yuriy Ashikhmin | Dmitriy Vladimirov | Zura Kipshidze | Aleksandr Yudin | Vasiliy Domrachyov | Evgeniy Levitskiy | Fyodor Lavrov | Lev Eliseev | Victor Pomortcev | Mikhail Silantyev | Pavel Romanov | Aleksandr Seleznyov | Vladimir Yumatov | Konstantin Smirnov | Dmitriy Solovyov | Gennadi Chetverikov