Cosmic Voyage (1936 film)

Cosmic Voyage
Theatrical poster
Directed byVasili Zhuravlov
Written byAleksandr Filimonov
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Produced byBoris Shumyatskiy
StarringSergei Komarov
Kselniya Moskalenko
Vassili Gaponenko
Nikolai Feoktistov
Vasili Kovrigin
Production
company
Release date
  • January 1936 (1936-01)
Running time
70 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageSilent film with Russian intertitles

Cosmic Voyage or The Space Voyage (Russian: Космический рейс, romanizedKosmicheskiy 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]

  1. ^ Atkinson, Michael (2014). "Cosmic Voyage". silentfilm.org. San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Retrieved February 27, 2021. 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).
  2. ^ "Kosmičeskij rejs / Cosmic Voyage". www.edition-filmmuseum.com. Filmmuseum München. Retrieved February 27, 2021.