COSMONAUT POLYAKOV
East Side Story
(Astronaut) Story
Cosmonaut Polyakov
Oh, Adam
I Am in Space
COSMONAUT POLYAKOV
Documentary
(110’), 2007
PRESS
Deadline:
“Valery Polyakov – a man whose only wish it is to
fade away into the endlessness
of space… Dana Ranga has accomplished yet another work of
art.”
brand
eins:
“If anyone has travelled in time the Hollywood way,
it’s certainly cosmonaut Polyakov.”
(more)
junge
Welt:
“A reference to the vastness of nature, which
mankind
has only succeeded to take posession of by the means
of art.”
SYNOPSIS
(short)
An orphan child that dreams about the Cosmos, a doctor who donates
blood for an experiment on interplanetary flights, a scientist who
proves
that man can fly to Mars: all these are aspects
of cosmonaut nr. 66,
Valery
Polyakov, the man with the longest spaceflight ever. Now he speaks for
the very first
time about himself and life
in space.
SYNOPSIS
(long)
Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov is nr. 66 in the line of Soviet,
later Russian
manned spaceflight – he holds the record of the longest trip
into space, 1 year and 2 months without disruption. He is a solitary
figure in the space travelers’ club, both a daredevil and a
fragile man, a doctor and an object of experimentation. He tested the
limits of body and mind, of bones and soul, of belief and dream. After
going through the hardships of an orphan’s life after World
War II, he became a physician and donated his blood and marrow for
experiments on interplanetary flights. As a scientist and cosmonaut he
has not only improved life on a space station, but proved that man
could fly to Mars… In this film he speaks for
the very first
time about
the KGB, the psychological hardships waiting for his flight,
about being an exile on Earth after his return.
Polyakov reveals the immense struggle a space traveler has to go
through: accurate, strategic planning of the spaceflight system meets
the hopeful human being. Only in space dreams become true, where the
cosmonaut is alone with his self. In weightlessness
the mind meets
infinity and the body learns about a
new dimension.
AWARDS
-
„Best Documentary“
International Competition
E Tudo Verdade/ It’s All
True, Sao
Paulo, Brazil,
2008
- "First Prize"
International
Competition
Ciencia e
Cinema, A Coruna,
Spain, 2008
FESTIVALS
-
Marseille, Festival
International du
Documentaire, France, 2007 -
Procida, Il vento del
cinema, Italy, 2007
- Sao Paulo, E Tudo Verdade /
It’s All True, Brasil, 2008
- Mar del Plata, International
Film Festival, Argentina,
2008
- Ciencia e Cinema,
A Coruna, Spain, 2008
- DocBoat Warsaw, Poland,
2009
CINEMAS, MUSEUMS,
CULTURAL CENTERS
- New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, 2009 & 2010
- "Retrospektive in die
Zukunft", Kommunales
Kino,
Freiburg, Germany,
2009
- Romanian Cultural Center, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
TV
- Arte /France & Germany, 2007
& 2009
- RAI / Italy, 2009, 2012
- YLE / Finland, 2011
