Yuri, a 35 year old business man, suddenly one day finds his life is going nowhere and decides to become a professional cosmonaut. But the complexity and length of the training prove frustrating, and Yuri questions if he will ever reach his goal, until the accidental death of a fellow trainee suddenly brings him tantalizingly close to realizing his dream, but also close to losing everything.
Acting
Teslya-Gerasimov's dead-eyed determination is devastating.
Direction
Trofimov makes training montages feel like psychological torture.
Director
Maksim Trofimov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Putin's third term, the film channels post-Soviet nostalgia for cosmic glory days while exposing rotting infrastructure — the cosmonaut program as metaphor for hollowed Russian ambition.
The zero-G training sequences were filmed in actual decommissioned Soviet centrifuges that hadn't been maintained since 1991. The rust is real.
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