The End of Eternity (film)

The film tells about the activities of a secret organization called "Eternity", which exists outside of time and controls everything on Earth. Representatives of "Eternity" can get into any century in the history of the Earth, starting from the 27th, that is, the century when "Eternity" appeared, using Time Capsules moving in endlessly continuing Wells of Time, and affecting the course of events, change it as they see fit, eradicating war, customs, new types of weapons, space travel.

Their new members "Eternity" recruits from the usual "time", taking them in childhood. They are forbidden to maintain any connection with the house, with the native Century. Having been trained, they become Eternal - Observers, Calculators, Sociologists, Calculators, Technicians ... So Andrew Harlan appeared in "Eternity", who after training worked as an Observer in the 48th century.

The young talented observer takes under him the chairman of the Council of Time, the Senior Calculator Laban Twissel, and makes him his personal Technician - the man who chooses the way to change the reality that was considered necessary to change the powerful Calculators. He is going to entrust Andrew with a responsible assignment, during which Harlan must teach a certain student, by the name of Cooper, to learn about Primitive History (that is, about the history of the Earth before the appearance of "Eternity"), which Harlan has been passionate about since childhood.

Technician Harlan mistakenly introduces Cooper to the Time Capsules device, which was absolutely impossible to do, for which, as a punishment, he was appointed Observer to the 48th century Eternity sector, which is led by his detractor, the Fingy Evaluator. There, he meets an ordinary girl from the 48th century, Noyce Lambent, who temporarily works for Fingzhi as a secretary (this is extremely surprising to Harlan, since there are no women in Eternity). The love of the "eternal" and "mortal" violates all plans of the Calculator Twissel, who planned to close the circle of Time - to send the disciple Cooper to the 24th century, where he should open the temporal field under the name of the great scientist Vikkor Mallanson the first devices to travel in Time, which will create Eternity in the 27th century. This plan has ripened from Twissel due to the fact that he discovered in the archives of Eternity the so-called “Melluar of Mallanson”, where he describes his studies in “Eternity” and sending him into reality for the 24th century, mentioning the names of Twissel and Harlan.

When the Finji calculator decides to change the reality of the 48th century, where Neuss comes from, Harlan asks his friend Sociologist Voya to calculate whether it is in the new reality. Having found out that she is not there, he hides Neuss in the Hidden Centuries, located after the 1000th, from which there is no exit from the sectors of "Eternity" to Reality. When the change happened, Harlan could not get to his beloved - Time Capsule stops in the 1000th century.

From now on, Andrew Harlan, Eternal to the bone, becomes the irreconcilable enemy of Eternity and is ready to do anything to return his girlfriend. Until the destruction of Eternity itself.

• Oleg Vavilov - Andrew Harlan
• Gediminas Girdvainis - Cooper
• Georgy Zhzhyonov - Senior Laban Twissel Calculator
• Vera Sotnikova - Neuss Lambent
• Boris Ivanov - Calculator Sennor
• Boris Klyuev - Sociologist Howl
• Mikk Mikiver - Mentor (Rector of the School of Eternity) Yarrow
• Sergey Jurassic - Gobbi Fingy Calculator
• Vladimir Fedorov - dwarf

• Director: Andrei Yermash
• Scenario: Andrei Ermash, Budimir Metalnikov
• Operator: Naum Ardashnikov , V. Gorshkov
• Composer: Edward Artemyev
• Production Designer: Boris Blank, Vladimir Murzin
• Directed by: Boris Welcher, Leonid Chertok
• Sound engineer: Olga Burkova
• Sound producer:
• Editor: T. Egorycheva
• Make-up artist: I. Perminova
• Costumes: A. Vavilova
• Chief Consultant: S. P. Kapitsa

• The main difference is in the final. If at Azimov he is optimistic: when Eternity is destroyed, then people of time can choose their own destiny, including Andrew and Noyce, whose fates in the XX century unite, then in the movie Andrew, after destroying the time capsule, Noyce rebukes him to use it only with selfish purposes. Despite the assurances of Noyce in love, Harlan leaves her away. In the final shots, Harlan sees Twissell and Fingy leaving the posh car and heading for the Landesbank building.
• The “hidden centuries” in the novel span from 70,000 to 150,000 centuries. In the film - from 1000 onwards.
• From the movie, a bole-emitter is removed - a weapon that is threatened by Andrew Harlan in the novel Finge and which ultimately makes a short circuit in the control panel at the time of Cooper's launch into Primitive Epoch. The booster radiator is replaced with an annihilator (in the novel, with his help, Fingy prevents Harlan's first attempt to deal with an opponent), and in order to make a short circuit, Harlan simply breaks the control panel with a capsule.
• Eternity in the novel is destroyed itself, when Harlan decides not to seek Cooper. In the film, Harlan annihilator destroys the Time Capsule, cutting off Eternity's way to salvation.
• The novel describes how heroes pass through the metal bars of the Time Wells into the Capsules. The film has never shown how the characters get there, although the Wells of Time are in the form of tunnels of rectangular cross-section.
• In the film there is a silent character who is not in the book - it is a dwarf who secretly accompanies Noyce. He appears in her house when Harlan is appointed Observer, in the Hidden Centuries, where Harlan hid Neuss, and in the final of the film, after the parting of Harlan and Neuss. He played the famous actor Lilliput Vladimir Fedorov .
• In the book, preventing mankind from entering space is a side effect; in the film, the goal of Eternity.
• The theme of love of Neuss and Harlan in the film has a completely different meaning. If in the novel, Neuss fell in love with Harlan before she met him and consciously made the decision to change the past for the sake of destroying Eternity precisely in the reality where Harlan was, then in the film Noyce is essentially an agent of people from “hidden centuries” introduced into Eternity to destroy it.
• Cooper was taken to eternity in the novel at 23 years, while in the movie it happened at 45 years old.
• In the novel, Cooper hit the first half of the 20th century, and in the film by the end of the century.
• As a result, the content of the ad, which Cooper published in the newspaper, in order to attract Harlan’s attention in the film does not correspond to the novel: in the novel, the ad text was a regular, unremarkable advertisement, and the image of the “nuclear fungus” drew attention, did not know. In the film, by contrast, the ad text was key.

• The full-scale filming of one of the movie scenes (the place where Harlan arrives in the 20th century) took place in the same places as the filming of Andrei Tarkovsky ’s Stalker film in Estonia, 25 kilometers from Tallinn , on the Yagala River in the area of ​​a destroyed power plant. The waste of a pulp and paper mill located near the location of the survey is also clearly visible - thick white foam on the water. When Harlan goes to shoot at the capsule of Time, he comes out of the destroyed building, out of that very door, near which the heroes made a halt in the movie “Stalker”. A kind of quotation - in fact at this time, at the end of the XX century, the Zone appears in the film “Stalker” ^[1] .

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