Cross-cultural Adaptations and Culture Wars: An Analysis of Andrei Yermash’s Cinematic Adaptation of Asimov’s End of Eternity

This paper is devoted to a critical analysis of the 1987 Russian-language cinematic adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s novel The End of Eternity (1955), written and directed by Andrei Yermash. It aims to evaluate how the adaptation’s movement from one politico-cultural space to another is shaped by policing, and which can be seen in the significant deviation of the film’s opening and ending from the novel. The paper, subsequently, highlights how this transformation becomes the basis of a line of argument that the Soviet Union had been consistently pushing forth in the Cold War era’s culture wars.