Aleksey UCHITEL Алексей УЧИТЕЛЬ Alekseï OUTCHITEL   Russia, 2005, 90 mn  Colour, fiction

Dreaming of Space ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Космос как предчувствие    Le Cosmos comme pressentiment  Kosmos kak predchuvstvie

---

---

Plot synopsis

1957. The USSR launched the first artificial satellite into space and a new spirit began to emerge from a people living in captivity in their own country, people cloaked in the paranoia of secrecy. It now seemed to them that a wonderful era of freedom lay ahead, not only an earthly freedom but a cosmic freedom as well.
Dreaming of Space is the story of the gullible and open Konyok, a cook and boxer living in the restricted zone of a seaport who befriends the enigmatic Gherman, a former political prisoner secretly obsessed with defecting. While his boxing trainer is determined to uncover Gherman’s secret, Konyok simply yearns for Gherman’s friendship and the love of Lara, a waitress, whose job serving on foreign ships could help Gherman’s plan.
Source : www.intercinema.ru

 

---

Commentaries and bibliography

Aleksei Uchitel', Dreaming of Space [Kosmos kak predchuvstvie] (2005), Katerina CLARK, kinokultura.com, 2005

 

---

Selected in the following festivals :

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2007

- Russian Art Festival, Cannes (France), 2006

- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2006

- Days of Russian cinema in Valence, Valencia (France), 2006

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2006

- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2006

- Russian Nights, Los Angeles (USA), 2006

- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2005

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2005

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2005

- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2005

- Festival Kinoblick, Stuttgart (Germany), 2005

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2005

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2005

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2005

- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2005

- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2005

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2004

Your remarks