Space Dogs

Space Dogs

Genre

Documentary

Director

Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Run time

1h 31min

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space, and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow. And so this outstanding documentary follows the dogs in the streets of the Russian capital, leaving the anthropocentric gaze behind and its will to create „heroic“ or „safe“ images.

Instead director Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter combine historic material of „Space Dogs“ and their preparations to be shot to space for humankind with new material at street level documenting the lives of dogs – including some images that could be shocking for some viewers. For others, this Austrian-German coproduction heads into new documentary territory altogether.

Christoph Gröner

Genre

Documentary

Director

Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Run time

1h 31min

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space, and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow. And so this outstanding documentary follows the dogs in the streets of the Russian capital, leaving the anthropocentric gaze behind and its will to create „heroic“ or „safe“ images.

Instead director Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter combine historic material of „Space Dogs“ and their preparations to be shot to space for humankind with new material at street level documenting the lives of dogs – including some images that could be shocking for some viewers. For others, this Austrian-German coproduction heads into new documentary territory altogether.

Christoph Gröner

Info

Rating

(none)

Production year

2019

Global distributor

Odin Media

Local distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

In cinema

11/28/2019