Ryazanov had one astronomer lecturer in the film. The old man liked to drink. And how he gets tipsy, and scratches about life on Mars: is it there or not - science, they say, is unknown. For half a century now he has been drunk and repeating his own. Meanwhile, science says... B Ryazanov had one astronomer lecturer in the film. The old man liked to drink. And how he gets tipsy, and scratches about life on Mars: is it there or not - science, they say, is unknown.