Planeta Bur is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev

Pavel Klushantsev

Pavel Vladimirovich Klushantsev was a Russian film director, producer, screenwriter and author who worked during the Soviet Era. A self-taught special effects engineer, far ahead of his time, Klushantsev devised many effects and techniques used by major motion pictures for decades to...

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The film is also known as Planet of the Storms, Planet of Storms, Planet of Tempests, Planeta Burg (American bootleg title) and Storm Planet.

Plot summary

In the future, a Soviet-American expedition to Venus encounters problems upon landing and must be rescued by a companion ship already in orbit around the planet. The cosmonauts must overcome adversity and challenges using their courage, skills and technology.

Cast

• Vladimir Yemelyanov
  Vladimir Yemelyanov
  Vladimir Yemelyanov was a Soviet actor, who appeared in 39 films between 1953 and 1975.-Selected filmography:* Hostile Whirlwinds * Road to Life * King Lear -External links:...
  
   as Ilya Vershinin
• Georgi Zhzhyonov as Bobrov
• Gennadi Vernov as Alyosha
• Yuri Sarantsev as Scherba
• Georgi Tejkh as Kern
• Kyunna Ignatova as Masha

Adaptations

In 1965 Curtis Harrington added several American-made scenes (starring Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue) and released the dubbed result under name "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 science fiction film directed by Curtis Harrington. The film is an American adapted and edited version of the Russian science fiction movie Planeta Bur directed by Pavel Klushantsev, with Curtis Harrington filming extra scenes featuring Basil Rathbone and...

". Since all credits were removed, soviet actors were "renamed" with non-Russian names (Gennadi Vernov as Robert Chantal, Georgi Zhzhyonov as Kurt Boden) or left completely uncredited to hide the fact that it's just a plagiarism

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous...

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