电影以发生在美国爱达荷州锯齿山脉的一则寓言式的猎狼故事展开，在白雪覆盖的雪山之巅、满山遍野针叶林高耸的神秘丛林中，观众跟随镜头可以欣赏到美国西部原始森林所呈现出的绝美自然的风景画卷。

　　15 岁的 Lera Arabova 和她的家人住在符拉迪沃斯托克市。莱拉的父亲已经在“米拉”空间站工作多年。他很久之前便与女儿失去了联系，现在只是手机里的一个声音。在这座城市被彗星的碎片夷为平地之后，莱拉只有一次机会将她的亲人和整个符拉迪沃斯托克从另一场灾难中拯救出来。Lera 的父亲从空中监视她的一举一动，通过卫星系统和电话引导她完成这场艰巨的救援行动。

　　In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.

　　心理学家克里斯•凯尔文（Donatas Banionis 饰）在飞往索拉瑞斯星之前来到儿时的父母家与当年的索拉瑞斯飞行员亨利•伯顿（Vladislav Dvorzhetsky 饰）见面。伯顿警告凯尔文索拉瑞斯星上会有不可思议的奇事发生，但后者并不以为意。凯尔文离开前，当 着父亲（尼古莱•格陵柯Nikolai Grinko 饰）的面焚毁了自己的个人物品。凯尔文到达索拉瑞斯星附近的太空站后，对科学家奇巴瑞安博士（Sos Sargsyan 饰）之死进行调查，却发现自己多年前已经去世的妻子哈莉（Natalya Bondarchuk 饰）竟突然出现。惊慌失措的凯尔文与太空站上的科学家们讨论该如何面对怪事，却发现原来每人都深受其扰，不明就里……
　　本片被提名1972年戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，并获同年戛纳电影节评委会大奖和国际影评人协会大奖。

　　Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
　　In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.
　　The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.

　　一群21世纪的俄罗斯士兵穿过迷雾后来到二战时期的东线

　　在一场巨大而神秘的事故之后，一位年轻有才华的建筑师在一个与现实世界相似的奇异世界里苏醒，这个世界建立在这里人民的记忆之上，而这些人则处于深度昏迷之中。由于这些人的记忆力参差不齐、混乱、不稳定，导致奇怪的记忆和回忆——城市、冰川、河流可以共存在一个房间里，所有的物理定律都可以被打破，建筑师必须找到他们昏迷的具体规律，才能找到通往现实世界的出口。就在他与命运抗争的同时遇到了真爱，而经历此次昏迷之后，他发现自己不得不重新认识这个世界……

　　一群乌合之众必须在他们被摧毁的城市里与消灭小队战斗。