Ikarie XB 1

Ikarie XB1 is a 1963 Czechoslovak science fiction film directed by Jindich Polk. It was edited and dubbed into English for release in the USA, where it is known by its alternate title, Voyage to the End of the Universe.

Ikarie XB1 was a hit at the 1963 Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival and it is now widely regarded as one of the best Eastern Bloc science fiction films of the era, boasting impressive production design, aboveaverage special effects, a strong ensemble cast and an intelligent screenplay although much of the subtlety of the original is lost in the Englishlanguage version.While it shows some influence from earlier American ventures such as Forbidden Planet 1956, the film was also influential in its own right critics have noted a number of similarities between Ikarie XB1 and Stanley Kubricks film 2001 A Space Odyssey 1968 and it is believed to have been one of the many space genre films that Kubrick screened while researching 2001. ........

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