AMBA The First Film
screenwriter & director Gennadiy Tishchenko
Hi guys. Something urgent came up.
Honestly, not quite in your sphere,
but you are closest to the G-705 sector
to which we sent a subspace mini-capsule
with our emissary.
Try not to be surprised by anything. Believe us,
before we sent this...
or rather... our... well, so to speak, uh...
ambassadress,
we thought everything through and weighed it all up... Anyway,
you will learn all the details from this... er...
ambassadress of ours.
Good luck.
My name is Julia.
This is for you, from Novitsky.
If this is a joke, it's not a very good one.
But in any case, welcome.
In front of you is the Amba-1,
which means:
AutoMorphic Bioarchitectural Assemblage number 1
Bioarchitect Harper's lab
discovered how to program the growth of biomass.
And, in the course of a Martian experiment, they grew a habitat.
The Assemblage's growth process is accelerated in this film.
In reality, the growth of the habitat took a week.
More than a million people will be able to live in it.
Recently, work on the Amba-2 project was concluded.
The growth of the new Assemblage
will be overseen by a biocybernetic complex
created on the base of
the genetically transformed brain
of the dog Rex.
This dog was injured in an accident
while saving his nine-year-old mistress.
The girl, fortunately, was saved.
Rex's body suffered heavy trauma,
however, the brain
remained intact.
The new complex will build a network of cities and towns
on the planet Mira in the Karnar system.
Also, it will fill Mira's atmosphere with oxygen -
that is, it'll completely prepare this planet, now unsuitable for life,
for settlement.
Why was a dog's brain chosen and not, for example, a dolphin's?
A dolphin's brain is, of course, more complex,
and seemingly more suited,
but dog loyalty has been tested for millennia.
Besides, I just wanted to save Rex,
at least in this way.
One week after the start of the new experiment,
the communication link with Mira was severed.
A cyber probe was sent, but...
Okay, let's investigate.
Forgive me, Julia,
I understand now why Novitsky sent you.
It seems that strong mutations have occurred in the biocomplex.
At least, the atmosphere is still poisonous,
so birch groves and cities are out of the question.
Got it.
It looks like Harper's experiment has failed.
The plateau with Harper's starship is to the left.
I see it, Max. I'm going to land.
Ah, he somehow noticed
that what's arrived isn't a robot, but people.
Who is he?
Rex, isn't that clear?
I think he can feel that I am here.
In what way? - I can feel it.
And you can too, I think.
Some kind of mysticism.
You know... she's right.
I seem to feel something too.
- Is it telepathy? - Don't laugh ...
Whether it's telepathy or something else, I feel
as if someone is digging into my mind.
More than that!
What's going on over there?!
I don't know, but...
Antal speaking, Antal speaking!
Yanin, respond! Do you copy?!
Yanin where have you disappeared to? Do you copy?
I am calling Antal.
Max, can you hear me?
It just can't be.
Anything is possible here.
Did you hear that? Did you hear that voice?
A voice?
No.
At this time only you can hear me.
I'm glad that you're here, Julia.
It's Rex.
I kind of... I kind of hear him.
You hear him? Then let him explain
what that is...
[footsteps sound]
art directors Gennadiy Tishchenko, A. Yeryomin, T. Areshkova
camera B. Milovanov
music S. Son sound O. Solomonov
voices V. Abdulov, L. Gnilova, A. Lushchik
animators A. Shtykhin, V. Nikitin, A. Cherepov, S. Petetskiy, O. Safronov
artists S. Merkulov, L. Dvinina, N. Ivancheva, M. Podsypanina, Ye. Stannikova
montage L. Afanasyeva script editor T. Borodina production director L. Zaryuta
THE END Subs by Eus & Niffiwan (2023)
Creative Association "EKRAN" Studio of animated TV films, 1994