
Approaching the Future
1986, Russian. Directed by Suren Shakhbazyan.
The hero of the film, academician Sergei Vasilyevich Lunin, director of the Kiev Research Institute of Informatics, is working on the implementation of the Unity project in the enterprises of a single department. According to his calculations, this global information network should significantly reduce the number of intermediate instances and, accordingly, the decision-making time. Lunin has opponents. Despite a sharp deterioration in health, the hero goes to the Novogorsk Tractor Plant and there he finds out the real reason for the downtime, and, consequently, the reason for hiding the data. Knowing that he has only six months to live, Lunin abandons the operation and does everything possible to protect his project.
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 January 1986
- Original title
- Приближение к будущему
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Yuriy Shcherbak
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Approaching the Future runs 77 minutes (1h 17m).
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Approaching the Future isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1986. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Approaching the Future?
Approaching the Future (1986) was directed by Suren Shakhbazyan and stars Marina Levtova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Khaleyev.