Per Aspera Ad Astra (film)

Per Aspera Ad Astra (film)

Per Aspera Ad Astra (Russian: Через тернии к звёздам, USA screen name - Through the Thorns to the Stars; Humanoid Woman) is a 1981 Soviet film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a novel by Kir Bulychov.

On December 27, 2001, a new restored version directed by Nikolai Viktorov, the son of the original film's director, was released as the 20th anniversary edition . The film featured revised special effects by the Paradox company, an all-new soundtrack in Dolby Digital and the film length had shrunk by 25 min (to speed up the dynamics of the plot; but also some episodes with Soviet ideological context were cut).

A heavily edited (missing almost an hour of footage), English-dubbed version of the film (under the title Humanoid Woman) was featured on an early episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.