TREASURERS OF SOVIET ANIMATION VOL. 1:
THE RETURN (1980) +
THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET (1981) + THE PASS (1988)
THE RETURN (VOZVRASCHENIE) (1980)
Label: Deaf Crocodile
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 10 Minutes 35 Seconds
Audio: Russian DTS-HD MA Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullcreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vladimir Tarasov
A sleeping cosmonaut hurtles unaware towards his home planet -- but will he awake in time?
THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET (TAYNA TRETEY PLANETY) (1981)
Label: Deaf Crocodile
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 49 Minutes 32 Seconds
Audio: Russian DTS-HD MA Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullcreen (1.37:1)
Director: Roman Kachanov
A trio of intrepid space explorers, Professor Seleznyov, his 9-year old daughter Alice and the hilariously doom-and-gloom Captain Zelyonyy set off on a rocket ship in the year 2181 to collect rare alien creatures for the Moscow Zoo. They're immediately drawn into an amazingly convoluted mystery involving a sinister doctor, a nearly-extinct Chatter-bird, and two legendary, missing cosmonauts. A delirious cosmic treat for fans of FANTASTIC PLANET, MYSTERY... features a gallery of psychedelic space creatures straight out of YELLOW SUBMARINE: blue-skinned aliens with ears on the tops of their heads, a tiger-rat from the planet Penelope, a blue-and-purple flying cow with fairy's wings. Director Roman Kachanov's long sought-after gem packs enough plot, surreal imagery, phantasmagorical creatures and otherworldly worlds into its 48 minutes for an entire mini-series.
THE PASS (PEREVAL) (1988)
Label: Deaf Crocodile
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 31 Minutes 12 Seconds
Audio: Russian DTS-HD MA Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullcreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vladimir Tarasov
"On this night, Oleg was on duty near the fence ... He sensed the emptiness and the routine. Three times people went to the Pass. It was all in vain." So begins Russian director Vladimir Tarasov's sublime masterpiece of animated sci-fi in which a group of terrified human survivors on an alien world try to reach their derelict spacecraft 16 years after it crashed. On par with Tarkovsky's SOLARIS and STALKER as one of the most hypnotic and visually stunning science-fiction stories ever filmed THE PASS is filled with cascading, pulsating images: night creatures that bleed in from the darkness to attack, a cat's eyes flickering in the candlelight, frightened children reciting stories of another planet, another time. THE PASS is the longest of Tarasov's works and arguably his finest achievement.
Special Features:
- Newly restored in 4K
- Strange Creatures: The Third Planet, Cheburashka and the Fabulous Animation of Roman Kachanov by Film Historian Evan Chester (21:10)
- Isolated in Space: The Sci-Fi Animation of Vladimir Tarasov by film historian Evan Chester (17:20)
- New Audio Commentary by Adam Rackoff, James Hancock and Martin Kessler.
- Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion.
Screenshots from the Deaf Crocodile Blu-ray:
THE RETURN (1980)
THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET (1981) 
THE PASS (1988)
Extras:
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