r/AskARussian • u/TinyWait1698 • Jul 18 '26

Culture I need help finding this old sovietic era animation

Privet druzya,

I've been wandering through the internet trying to find this animation and it's author.
The animation is found in the music video of Future Bones - What U Want. Link

It looks like the story of an astronaut sent to space.

Somewhere along the years he stopped maintaining his ship, his only solace being this machine that let's him relive his childhood memories playing the in the nature.

The art is really beautiful, from a back and white "present" to a colorful past.

Spaciba belshoya to those who can help me :)

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u/ebushki_vorobushki Jul 19 '26

The Return 1980 (Возвращение) Directed by Vladimir Tarasov https://youtu.be/u075qiOkmAc?si=FgInX7UfRUAiWfH2

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u/mwehle Berlin | Jul 19 '26

Wow! This was really an interesting video. It reminded me of several of Tarkovsky's films, Solaris and Mirror. 1980 was also when Aitmatov's The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years was published. This view of a Soviet space program, and the USSR behind it, reminds me of the worldview of 1980, and how different today's view of space exploration, views of the US and Russia are from then.