Space Tourists

Space Tourists is a featurelength documentary of the Swiss director Christian Frei. The film had its premiere at the Zurich Film Festival in 2009 and has won the World Cinema Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010.

The film accompanies the first female space traveler who was not a space agency employee, Anousheh Ansari, who paid USmillion for her flight into space.On the other side the film shows the poor Kazakh metal collectors risking their lives in search for rocket waste that fall literally from heaven. In the film we hear as well Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen who has followed these metal collectors long time ago. The film has its sad and funny sides. We observe for example Charles Simonyi, chief developer of Word and Excel at his space training and at his tasting of space food. Another protagonist of the film is Dumitru Popescu, an aerospace enthusiast who applied at the Google Lunar XPrize of the XPrize Foundation, founded by Anousheh Ansari. ........

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