The Mediator

Dec 22, 1990

3h 39m

★ 5.0

Overview

In an ordinary industrial Soviet town, notable only for presence of a radio-telescope, people start behaving strangely, in a robotic manner, while assuming geometry-inspired aliases and organizing into a new hierarchy. The phenomenon spreads via a device of alien origin, called “the mediator”, capable of implanting extraterrestrial minds into human bodies. The aliens are bound by limitations of the terrestrial technology, having to use the means at the disposal of humans to prepare the grounds for the full-scale invasion. With “the mediator" being unable to subdue minds of children, lunatics, geniuses, and rebels, a struggle over the fate of the town and the human civilization ensues.

Genres

Science Fiction

Action

Production Companies

Gorky Film Studios

The Mediator Trailers

Cast

Vakhitov

Evgeniy Redko

Nastya

Olesya Sudzilovskaya

Sergei

Andrey Tarasenko

Dasha

Daria Sidorina

Zhenya

Denis Chlenov

Zamyatina

Inara Slucka

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Valeriy Storozhik

Kiselyov

Algis Matulionis

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Vilor Kuznetsov

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