The Space Voyage (1936)

Original title

Космический рейс

Directed by

Vasily Zhuravlyov

Genre

science fiction film, silent film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Soviet scientists build a giant rocket ship to fly to the moon. The film shows their launch, the experience of weightlessness, and life inside the spacecraft.

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What happens

Cosmic Voyage or The Space Voyage (Russian: Космический рейс, romanized: Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella) is a 1936 Soviet science fiction silent film directed by Vasili Zhuravlov and produced by Mosfilm. It was one of the earliest films to represent a realistic spaceflight, including weightlessness as well as one of the last Soviet silent era films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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