Art Pictures | Sputnik

About film

Year

2020
Country

Russia
Genre

sci-fi horror
Synopsis

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander's mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him.

Director

Egor Abramenko
Script

Andrew Zolotarev, Oleg Malovichko
Producers

Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andruchenko, Fedor Bondarchuk, Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya

The film is a major debut for its director Egor Abramenko
«Sputnik" was selected for the program of a prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. The film also became the participant of L'Etrange Film Festival, Sitges (Catalonian International Film Festival), Trieste Science Fiction Festival, Pingyao International Film Festival and others.

"A supremely confident 1980s-set sci-fi refrigerated with elements of a Soviet-era thriller and scares straight out of Alien"

Cath Clarke, The Guardian
"Sputnik's genre pleasures are modest, but like the best sci-fi, it gets you thinking"

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/ Vulture
"Strong performances, strikingly spare production design and somber cinematography convey a sense of something important going on. That's no small achievement in what proves to be a creature feature with flair"

Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal