Cosmic Voyage | |
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Directed by | Vasili Zhuravlov |
Written by | Aleksandr Filimonov Konstantin Tsiolkovsky |
Produced by | Boris Shumyatskiy |
Starring | Sergei Komarov Kselniya Moskalenko Vassili Gaponenko Nikolai Feoktistov Vasili Kovrigin |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Silent film with Russian intertitles |
Cosmic Voyage or The Space Voyage (Russian: Космический рейс, romanized: Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella) is a 1936 Soviet science fiction silent film produced by Mosfilm. It was one of the earliest films to represent a realistic spaceflight, including weightlessness as well as one of the last Soviet silent era films.[1][2]
A groundbreaking amateur rocket engineer and physicist idolized after his death (in 1935) by Soviet culture, Tsiolkovsky made sure that astronautic considerations like landing shock and oxygen supplies were key to the scenario, making it the first semi-accurate cinematic depiction of space travel (and ahead in several ways of the H.G. Wells-derived British epic Things to Come, released that same year).