The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion

The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion (2009) is the second part of Fyodor Bondarchuk's Russian sci-fi diptych — watch online on iFILM. Vasily Stepanov returns as Maxim Kammerer, a young cosmonaut stranded on a planet that Earth doesn't know exists.

Maxim now leads an armed uprising against the Unknown Fathers, the regime that keeps the population docile through a grid of psychotronic towers. Dismantling that system is the goal. Between him and it stands Strannik — a calculating intelligence officer who has spent years watching Maxim and knows exactly what he's capable of. Yulia Snigir, Pyotr Fyodorov, Gosha Kutsenko, Alexei Serebryakov, and Sergei Garmash round out the ensemble, one of the largest assembled for a Russian genre film of that era.

Adapted from the Strugatsky brothers' novel Prisoners of Power and produced at a then-record budget for Russian cinema, Rebellion delivers the full-scale finale the first film set up. Stream The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion (2009) online on iFILM.