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One freight train driver helped two dying military personnel using completely unofficial technology. If he'd known the consequences... He would have done the exact same thing anyway.
While reading this edgy sci-fi novel about family values, you keep getting the feeling that he's not at all what he pretends to be. Well, you don't.
3) Space dogs
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Laika, a stray dog picked up by the Soviet space program on the streets of Moscow, became the first living being to orbit the earth when she was launched into space on Sputnik 2. Although Laika would not survive the journey, directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter trace the persistence of her memory and legacy into the present day. As the capsule containing Laika re-entered Earth’s orbit and began to burn up, the narrator announces “What had been...
4) Dead Time
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The book by researcher Svetlana Eremeeva is an analysis of the representations of military funerals in 2022 in the public space. The author sought to find out not so much how military men are buried today, but what it means for their loved ones, for society and the state as a whole. By defining the contours of the lifeworlds behind the wires of the dead, the author shows the untenability of the rhetoric about "brotherly" peoples of hardly a single...
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Antonio Presto, a famous comedian, undergoes a transformation to change his appearance and gain recognition beyond his comedic talents. However, his new identity causes complications, including legal troubles and relationship challenges. He eventually succeeds in the film industry but faces heartbreak when his love interest, Ellen, decides to leave due to false rumors.
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In a remote German fishing village, Professor Broier, a biochemist, develops "miracle dough," a self-sustaining food. The secret leaks, causing chaos as entrepreneurs commercialize it. Uncontrolled growth of the substance leads to a global catastrophe. Broier is arrested but manages to create a fungus to destroy the "eternal dough."
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"Amphibian Man" by Alexander Belyaev is a classic science fiction novel about Ichthyander, a young man with gills who can live both underwater and on land. His unique abilities lead to a life of adventure, love, and danger as he navigates the challenges of a world that doesn't fully understand his nature. This gripping tale explores themes of identity, acceptance, and the mysteries of the deep, making it a timeless and thought-provoking read.
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The large transatlantic liner Benjamin Franklin departs from Genoa for New York. Detective Jim Simpkins is on board, transporting the criminal Reginald Gatling, who he arrested in Europe, to the United States. During a storm, the ship begins to sink, but due to the detective's indecisiveness, they get on deck too late, when all the boats with the escaping passengers and crew have already sailed. Nevertheless, the liner remained afloat, and the remaining...
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"The Last Man From Atlantis" by Alexander Belyaev follows the incredible journey of the sole survivor of Atlantis, who emerges from the depths to explore a world vastly changed by time. His encounters with modern civilization and his quest for belonging make for a thought-provoking adventure.
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"The Man Who Lost His Face" is a science fiction novel by Alexander Belyaev. It tells the story of Tonio Presto, a dwarf comedian from San Francisco whose film success does not help him in his personal life due to his deformity. He decides to change his appearance with the Russian doctor Sorokin and becomes a beautiful but unfamiliar man. He gives up his career and disappears. Later, a gang appears in the city, whose members can change their appearance....
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The young German scientist Ludwig Stirner, a graduate student of Professor Gehre, is engaged in reflexology, but due to lack of money he leaves his scientific work and becomes the secretary of the banker Karl Gottlieb. Stirner is courting one of the employees, Elsa Gluck, but she prefers the bank's legal adviser, Otto Sauer, to him. In his free time, the man continues his experiments and manages to create a device for transmitting thoughts at a distance,...
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Professor Dowell conducts audacious experiments without considering the consequences, unaware that he himself might become a subject. His brilliant ideas and nearly unthinkable concepts are taken over entirely by his own student. However, the student desires to freely manipulate the scientist's intriguing scientific endeavors.
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In 1927, before the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the United Left Opposition, in accordance with the party's charter, tried to state in detail its position and proposals for correcting the policy of building a socialist society. However, it failed to publish its platform, and the opposition was condemned only on the basis of indiscriminate accusations. This document ("Statement of the Thirteen", or "Draft Platform of...
14) Sputnik
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A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
15) Solaris
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Criterion collection volume 164
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Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
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Criterion collection volume 164
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Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
17) Stalker
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At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must...
18) Solaris
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Criterion collection volume 164
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Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
19) Stalker
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Criterion collection volume 888
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Inside a mysterious realm called the zone there is The Room, a place that will grant you your innermost desire. Stalker, a man that knows how to pass the deadly secrets of The Zone, escorts a group of people to the Room.
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A famous scientist believes that if people were able to live in the ocean, they would be able to resolve all their economical and political problems. He creates the first human amphibian out of his son by transplanting gills onto him. The utopian project turns out tragically.
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