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“Any system like Eternity, which allows men to choose their own future, will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

– The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov, 1955)

Opened on December 17, 2023 at 9:28 pm, in Russian:

https://cyclowiki.org/wiki/Конец_Вечности_(фильм)

“Film director Andrei Yermash (Andrey Ermash) went for blatant plagiarism – the film's finale was shot in the same area and with the same scenery as in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker – in Estonia, near an abandoned power plant on the Jagala river. At the same time, for a long time after the appearance of the Time Capsule in the 20th century, the scene is shown in the same way as in Stalker – and the foam on the water (waste from the local pulp and paper mill), and the movement of the water itself, and the ruins of the old power plant. The father of the director of The End of Eternity, Philipp Yermash, who was Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Cinematography from 1972 to 1986, in 1983 contributed to the fact that Andrei Tarkovsky remained abroad as a non-returnee, with the deprivation of Soviet citizenship. In this regard, the quote can be interpreted as a mockery of the work of the outstanding Soviet director, especially since the plans of flowing water, which are dramatic and meditative in Tarkovsky’s films, have turned into empty long notes that do not fit into the overall dynamic nature of the film.”

On January 2, 2023, I became interested in this episode from the movie The End of Eternity:

The End of Eternity (film, USSR, dir. Andrei Yermash, 1987, in Russian)

http://www.kinoexpert.ru/index.asp?comm=4&num=5033

“The ending of the film was shot in the same place as most scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker – in Estonia, 25 kilometers from Tallinn, on the Yagala [Yagala-Yoa, Jägala] river near the destroyed power plant. If you look at the footage where the characters of Stalker are getting lost near the destroyed doorway (the scene before and after going to the ‘dry tunnel’) and the footage where Harlan goes to shoot the Time Capsule in The End of Eternity, we will see the same shots. More than that! In the film The End of Eternity we also see the waste of the pulp and paper mill, which dumped all the most toxic waste into the Yagala river – a terrible foam on the water. Why did Yermash do this? Just liked the nature? An attempt to mock Tarkovsky? An attempt to show that the Zone in Stalker did not arise from scratch – but as a result of the annihilation of a Time Capsule? I didn't find a single mention on the Web. But the fact of direct borrowing is obvious. Moreover, the film found many discrepancies with the novel: hidden centuries in the film begin in the 1,000th century, while in the novel they begin in the 70,000th, the ending is pessimistic, unlike the novel. But this is just a very competent, in my opinion, move of the screenwriter.”

(link in Russian)

https://ru.kinorium.com/238083/info/

“When Harlan goes to shoot at the Time capsule, he comes out of the destroyed building, from the very door near which the heroes stopped in the movie Stalker. A peculiar quote – after all, it was at this time, at the end of the XX century that the Zone in the film Stalker appears.”

Episodes from two movies, with references to the Zone:

In the movie Stalker:

(1:10:53) The Writer and Stalker arrive at a strange place called the ‘dry tunnel’ and pass by the opening;

(1:12:30) they discover that the Professor is lost;

(1:14:01) The Writer and Stalker come out of the doorway and find the Professor:

“Here he is!” <…>

“How did you get here?”

“I crawled most of the way on all fours.””

“It's unbelievable. But how did you manage to overtake us?”

“How to overtake us? I came back here for my backpack.” <…>

“Where did our nut come from?”

“My God, it's a trap! Here the Porcupine specially hung a nut. How did the Zone let us through? For God's sake, I'm not going to take a step now until … a good deal.”

(1:17:45) A black dog appears, and the episode “Stalker's Dream” begins a little later.

The zone allowed the Professor to return for his backpack, and even contributed to this, as a result, he overtook his companions, although he moved on all fours (an allusion to a monkey with a grenade). Well, in his backpack was an atomic mine, which could possibly, if used in a Room, destroy the Zone.

Naturally, after such a plot twist on the part of the Zone, the Stalker had a dream about the upcoming Apocalypse:

(1:24:28) “And behold, there was a great earthquake…” (Revelation Ap. St. John the Evangelist (Apocalypse) 6:12–17).

(1:28:52) “On the same day two of them went to a village about 60 stages away, called…” (Luke 24:13–18).

In the movie The End of Eternity:

(Episode 2, 53:13) Harlan walks past the doorway and sees a Time Capsule;

(Episode 2, 54:15) he destroys it.

I remembered where I had seen this Time Capsule earlier in another piece of fiction. In my childhood, there was a book by Jules Verne “20 thousand leagues under the sea”, published in Russian in paperback around 1973–1977. I don't remember exactly at what age I got my hands on this book, most likely it was in 1982–1983, when I was 9–10 years old.

I remember and was very impressed as a child by the black-and-white illustration from this book, where the underwater ship Nautilus is depicted, it is almost completely submerged, only its wheelhouse is visible above the water, Captain Nemo stands on the deck with his arms folded and looks into the distance.

It was just a vivid fragmentary impression, it did not extend to the whole novel, which I was not particularly interested in.

Episode in the movie The End of Eternity with the appearance of the Capsule (Episode 2, 47:40).

A picture from a book I saw as a child is closest to the cover illustration of the Eksmo edition, World Literature Series, 2020, ISBN 9785041172787, in Russian

https://megamarket.ru/catalog/details/dvadcat-tysyach-le-pod-vodoy-100060894572_22369/

On January 3, 2024, at 5:00 pm, I added a fragment of my diary for January 2–4, 2023 to the book:

Monday, January 2, 2023

5:25 pm I finished reading the book The End of Eternity by A. Asimov, which I started reading the day before, on January 1.

In the afternoon, East’s mother said that in the movie “Day’s Watch” (2004) she remembered a little person.

In the evening, I discovered that the film The End of Eternity had a scene in the same place where the scene in Stalker was shot, and the film also features a little person (a character who is not in the original novel, although in the novel the author sometimes refers to the Senior Computer Scientist Laban Twissell as a little person).

5:28 pm I began to study the plot of the film The End of Eternity:

“The novel The End of Eternity was first published in August 1955. <…>

In the 27th century, the company ‘Eternity’ was opened, which changed the past and future for the benefit of civilization. Time-changing technician Harlan suddenly realizes that his beloved no longer exists in the reality he created.

A perestroika-era cyberpunk, an adaptation of the novel by Isaac Asimov, one of the scenes of which was shot in the same place as Tarkovsky’s Stalker – on the Yagala river in Estonia, near the destroyed power plant.”

Filming location of A. Tarkovsky's movie Stalker, 1978 (Yagala-Yoa, in Russian)

https://wikimapia.org/10420773/ru/Место-съемок-фильма-А-Тарковского://wikimapia.org/10420773/ru- "Stalker" -1978

The End of Eternity (film, link in Russian)

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Конец_Вечности_(фильм)

Opened on January 2, 2023 at 6:35 pm:

Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev (link in Russian)

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Артемьев,_Эдуард_