Space Sailors | TIFF

Space Sailors

(Fliegerkosmonauten)
Marian Kiss

Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Intercosmos Programme they were about to conquer space. One perfect specimen of manhood from every communist nation. First the Czechoslovakian, followed by a Pole, an East-German, a Bulgarian, a Hungarian, a Vietnamese, a Rumanian, a Cuban, a Mongolian, and an Afghan cosmonaut. Overnight they became celebrated stars and received all conceivable honours and positions that Socialism had to offer.

And today?

One went from being Minister of Aviation to unskilled labourer, the other from a Major General to a jolly millionaire. What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism? That’s the question we’ll pursue...

Awards & Festivals: DoK Leipzig 2009

Director 
Marian Kiss
Cast 
Bertalan Farkas
Jugderdemid Gurragchaa
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Georgi Ivanov
Dr. Sigmund Jähn
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez
Abdul Ahad Momand
Dumitru Dorin Prunariu
Vladimir Remek
Pham Tuan
Country 
Germany
Running time 
12h:00m
Section 
TIFF Edition 

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