Pavel ARSENOV
Павел АРСЕНОВ
Pavel ARSENOV
USSR, 1987, 77mn 
fiction
The Purple Ball
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Лиловый шар

 

 La Boule violette

 Liloviy shar

 
Directed by : Pavel ARSENOV (Павел АРСЕНОВ)
Writing credits : Pavel ARSENOV (Павел АРСЕНОВ)
Based on the novel of the same name by the Soviet writer Kir Bulitchev (1983)
 
Cast
Natalya GUSEVA (Наталья ГУСЕВА) ...Alice
Aleksandr_3 GUSEV (Александр_3 ГУСЕВ) ...Gerasik
Vyacheslav NEVIHHY (Вячеслав НЕВИННЫЙ)
Boris SHCHERBAKOV (Борис ЩЕРБАКОВ)
Vyacheslav BARANOV (Вячеслав БАРАНОВ)
Svetlana KHARITONOVA (Светлана ХАРИТОНОВА)
 
Cinematography : Sergey TKACHENKO (Сергей ТКАЧЕНКО)
Production design : Piotr PASHKEVICH (Пётр ПАШКЕВИЧ)
Music : Evgeniy KRYLATOV (Евгений КРЫЛАТОВ)
Production : Gorky Film Studio
Release date in Russia : 09/01/1988
 
Sites : kinopoisk, IMDb

Plot synopsis
A fairytale story that takes place in the 21st century. The spacecraft crew discovers data at an abandoned extraterrestrial station on the purple ball that had the enemy virus that was brought to Earth thousands of years ago. This virus can cause death. The heroine of the film - the intrepid girl Alice - travels to the era of legends by time machine to find and neutralize the purple ball.
 

Commentaries
Huit films soviétiques sur des voyages dans le temps, Anna Popova, Fenêtre sur la Russie, 2025
Ces navettes spatiales soviétiques et russes «conçues» par les cinéastes, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
Soviet and Russian spaceships in movies & TV, bignewsnetwork.com, 2022
Lilac Ball – The Purple Ball (1987) [Film La Boule violette de Pavel Arsenov], Julien MORVAN, Perestroikino, 2020
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Childhood and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026
- The conquest of space in Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Time travel and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025

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