In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.
| Directing | Konstantin Lopushansky | Director |
| Writing | Vyacheslav Rybakov | Writer |
| Writing | Arkadiy Strugatskiy | Writer |
| Writing | Boris Strugatskiy | Writer |
| Writing | Konstantin Lopushansky | Writer |
| Art | Konstantin Pakhotin | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Bakhareva | Seamstress |
| Production | Catherine Dussart | Producer |
| Production | Andrey Sigle | Producer |
| Camera | Vladislav Gurtchin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Andrey Sigle | Music |
| Art | Viktor Ivanov | Production Design |
| Editing | Sergey Obukhov | Editor |
| Production | Velentina Shkolnik | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Zhanna Rodionova | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Vladimir Studennikov | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Leonid Gavrichenko | Sound |
| Sound | Aleksei Shulga | Sound |
| Visual Effects | Dmitry Sukhov | Visual Effects |
| Crew | Vadim Malyshev | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Aleksandr Pestov | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Dmitriy Shulkin | Stunts |