The Cosmonaut
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Premiere in Madrid in May 2013
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| Directed by | Nicolás Alcalá |
| Produced by | Carola Rodríguez Bruno Teixidor |
| Starring | Katrine De Candole Leon Ockenden Max Wrottesley |
| Music by | Joan Valent |
| Cinematography | Luis Enrique Carrión |
| Edited by | Carlos Serrano Azcona Nicolas Alcalá |
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| Country | Spain |
| Language | English |
| Budget | €860,000 |
The Cosmonaut (El Cosmonauta) is a Spanish science-fiction film, directed by Nicolás Alcalá and produced by Carola Rodríguez and Bruno Teixidor. It premiered in May 2013. The first feature-length project of Riot Cinema Collective is notable for its use of crowdfunding and Creative Commons license in its production.
In 1967, two young friends, Stas and Andrei, arrive to the newly built Star City (near Moscow) where the first cosmonauts trained to go into space, and where a race against the clock to beat the Americans into space takes place.
Stas and Andrei will witness first-hand the political plots, the fights for power and the successes and failures of the Soviet Union in some of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. They will meet Yulia, a communications technician, with whom they will strike up a strong friendship, always close to love but never consummated.
The main influences behind The Cosmonaut's conception and filmmaking approach are the works of some of the world's most renowned filmmakers. The project’s dossier mentions specifically the names of Wong Kar-wai (and his main cinematographer, Christopher Doyle), Andrei Tarkovsky, José Luis Guerín, and Robert Bresson, among others. There are many links especially to Andrei Tarkovsky’s body of work either thematically (the main themes of the films of memory, lost love, and reality), or plot-related (the film’s two main characters, Andrei and Stas Arsenievich, share Andrei Tarkovsky’s name and patronymic, respectively). These ties are more evident through a look in the collaborators’ list: among others, the names of Eduard Artemyev, and Marina Tarkovskaya (Tarkovky’s sister).
The fictional Program K, whose hummingbird icon is one of the main images used in the project’s promotion, and which also gives its name to the virtual community of producers of the film, is based on the real Soviet projects that attempted to place a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon.
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