The Purple Ball

The film is set in the year 2087. Alice Selezneva, along with her father (Professor Seleznev) and the captain of the Pegasus spacecraft Zeleny, went into space to meet the ship of the Seleznevs ' friend, the space archaeologist Gromozeki. Along with them on board is a frog that Alice picked up from the Age of Legends. According to her, the frog is an enchanted princess, which, according to the wizard Uuuh, can only be disenchanted by love. Green can't stand the frog (since it's against the rules), but still gives in to Alice, who agrees to keep the frog in her cabin. At the rendezvous point, they find an empty, inertia-driven spaceship of unknown origin. There, the heroes meet Gromozeka – he had already found this ship and began exploring its interior.

The ship turned out to be the "Black Wanderer" -a legendary conquering ship that, according to space legends, conquered many planets in the distant past. Studying the materials found on the ship, the heroes learn that many thousands of years ago, its owners, having arrived on Earth, left a purple ball on it – a kind of bacteriological time bomb. This ball should explode when the aliens, who are making a vicious circle around the Galaxy in their ship, again approach the Earth. After the explosion of the ball, a terrible virus of hostility will break out of it, under the influence of which the earthlings will immediately hate each other and begin to kill everyone who comes to hand. After all living things died, the owners of the "Black Wanderer" were going to take over the Land with ready-made infrastructure and settle on it. The estimated time of the explosion of the purple ball is August 16, 2087 at 8: 45. But, as our heroes have already found out, the aliens from the" Black Wanderer " died long ago – the same purple ball was broken on it in the distant past, and its inhabitants killed each other. Their dead ship only continues its way through the Galaxy by inertia, but the trouble is that the purple ball, left somewhere on Earth, is still waiting in the wings to explode, because the death of its owners did not affect it in any way. Seleznev, Zeleny, Gromozeka and Alice calculate that the explosion of the ball should take place in ten days, and immediately, without wasting precious time, send their ship back to Earth.

When approaching the Earth, they try to explain to the ground services of the cosmodrome what danger threatens the Earth in a few days, but they do not believe them and forcibly put the Pegasus on the ground inside the quarantine cruiser, as its crew is suspected of mass psychosis. Meanwhile, the place on Earth where the aliens placed the ball is not known to anyone, and it is impossible to find it with any modern devices. It is only known that a previous trip to the Land owners, "the Black stranger" was the end of an Era of Legends – discovered by employees of the Institute a time period in the history of mankind when there was indeed miracles, wizards, dragons and other fairy-tale heroes. Alice decides that the only possible course of action in this situation is for her to travel in a time machine to that very Era of Legends (fortunately, she was there once before and made friends there) and, having tracked down the Black Wanderer scout car, find out where the purple ball was placed by the aliens, and then somehow defuse this time bomb. Alice and Gromozeka travel back in time with the help of a smaller, mobile version of the time machine aboard the Pegasus.

There, despite all the obstacles by Alice Gromozeka natives (fairy tale villains by Koschei the Immortal, Baba Yaga, an Ogre and Condom), Alice through Gromozeka, local boy Gerasik and kind wizard Uuuh, and with the cap of darkness, arrives at the landing site of razvedchitsa "Black stranger" and discovers that the aliens are hiding the ball with a virus of hostility under a huge boulder in the meadow spruce forest. After getting the ball, Alice and Gromozeka say goodbye to Uuuh and Gerasik and return to their time on their ship, still blocked by ground services at the spaceport. Suddenly, after Alice and Gromozeka, the wizard Uuuh suddenly appears from the time machine and says that he remembered what he wanted to say to Alice back in the Age of Legends, but Alice stops him and says that he urgently needs to solve something with the ball, which can explode at any moment. Then Uuuh takes the ball from them and throws it into the Sun with the help of magic, and the Earth is saved from disaster.

After that, Uuuh finally says what he wanted to say – that the enchanted frog can only be disenchanted by love, and after these words, she turns into a beautiful girl. It is clear that the captain of the ship Green was still not indifferent to her. The film ends with a close-up of Alice's eyes as she watches Uuuh say goodbye to her and is transported back to the past.