The Cosmonaut

The Cosmonaut El Cosmonauta is a Spanish sciencefiction film, directed by Nicolas Alcala and produced by Carola Rodriguez and Bruno Teixidor. It premiered in May 2013. The first featurelength project of Riot Cinema Collective is notable for its use of crowdfunding and Creative Commons license in its production.

Stas and Andrei will witness firsthand the political plots, the fights for power and the successes and failures of the Soviet Union in some of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. They will meet Yulia, a communications technician, with whom they will strike up a strong friendship, always close to love but never consummated.The main influences behind The Cosmonauts conception and filmmaking approach are the works of some of the worlds most renowned filmmakers. The projects dossier mentions specifically the names of Wong Karwai and his main cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jos Luis Guern, and Robert Bresson, among others. There are many links especially to Andrei Tarkovskys body of work either thematically the main themes of the films of memory, lost love, and reality, or plotrelated the films two main characters, Andrei and Stas Arsenievich, share Andrei Tarkovskys name and patronymic, respectively. These ties are more evident through a look in the collaborators list among others, the names of Eduard Artemyev, and Marina Tarkovskaya Tarkovkys sister. ........

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