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Sep 11, 2020 · Laika, a stray dog scooped off the streets of Moscow, launched on the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957, just a month after Sputnik 1's liftoff opened the space age. The 11-lb. (5 ...
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed the streets of Moscow ever since. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, SPACE DOGS accompanies the adventures of her descendants: two street dogs living in ...
Oct 20, 2024 · In Dreaming Dogs, a realistic directorial approach, while giving the whole thing an aura of magic, proved to be the right solution. At the Viennale 2024.
Sep 7, 2020 · Directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter describe the relationship between dogs and humans and the story of Laika as “a bitterness that we choose to illustrate” in a promotional statement for ...
Aug 16, 2019 · Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s Space Dogs [+ see also: film review trailer interview: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter film profile], showing in the Filmmakers of the Present section at the Locarno Film Festival, starts with Laika the dog, the first animal in space, but soon expands in several unexpected directions: the film brings us into the world of Moscow strays; shows never-before-seen archive ...
Aug 17, 2023 · This past fall, I spoke remotely with Austrian/German directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter about their work on the beautifully elliptical documentary Space Dogs (which I also reviewed). The movie tells two stories in parallel, that of the Soviet space program in its early days and of the life of street dogs in Moscow today.
Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter's Space Dogs is is exclusively playing on MUBI in most countries starting September 10, 2020 in MUBI's Undiscovered series. It was a Moscow street dog that was the first living being to orbit the Earth some millions of years after our planet's creation.
