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Some Drama in Russian circa late 1950s, 16 September 2005
8/10
Author: Jamester from Canada

I saw this in the Toronto International Film Festival (2005) with the director present.

This is one of the few Russian movies I've ever seen and a strong contender for on of the best. I enjoyed it not only for the 'Russian perspective', but for the strong dramatic action in a well-told story.

The story revolves around a cook/boxer who lives near the Russian-Finnish border in 1957. A new and rather mysterious boxer in town brings some fresh techniques and perspective into the former's life starting a tale of intrigue (who is this guy), against the backdrop of the Soviet desire to launch satellites into space.

It's an overall upbeat tale in perhaps a less upbeat period of time, with some great boxing sequences (though it's not a boxing movie). The director mentioned it took 3 months to start the actors boxing training who had the coach from the Olympic team do the training. The comment was that had they taken up training earlier on, they would definitely be on the olympic team. That tells you how real the boxing scenes were, but also show the care that went into the overall production.

The movie has an engaging 'secret-service' suspensefulness, and its main characters come across as fun, real, and compelling. In addition, perhaps because of the 'Russian-ness' to this movie, the characters and the actors' portrayals as well as the style of the movie were rather unique (in a very positive way) -- further pulling me in to the screening.

Overall, this rates above average on my list of movies I've seen at the Toronto Film Festival.

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there's more to this film than meets the eye, 26 July 2006
7/10
Author: razorrrr from Russian Federation

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This film has a definite feeling of "otherness" despite its realistic setting,as other films by the same scriptwriter Alexander Mindadse. They all seem to transcend the reality.

In this film the transcendental is impersonated by an enigmatic newcomer to the town. Koniok, a young cook, is immediately attracted to him, since he's so unlike the others, and this obsession is most unusual (no sexual element here) and makes you wonder how it will be resolved.

The film is set in the 1950s and the period is reconstructed very thoroughly, but it is the "feel" of that era, with people's naive enthusiasm about the country's achievements in space, that seems very true to life.

For viewers not familiar with Russian history this film may be viewed just as a universal story,as it is intended.

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Seattle International Film Festival - David Jeffers for SIFFblog.com, 14 May 2006
5/10
Author: rdjeffers from Seattle

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Saturday June 10, 1:30pm Lincoln Square

Monday June 12, 9:30pm The Neptune

Victor (Yevgeni Mironov) dreams of being a cosmonaut. He meets Gherman (Yevgeni Tsyganov), who longs to defect, at the local gym and they become sparring partners. Victor, or "Horsie" as his girl Lara (Irina Pegova) calls him, follows Gherman around like a puppy and soon they are inseparable friends. Set in a Russian coastal town on the North Sea days after the satellite Sputnik was launched, Dreams of Space has a beautifully muted color palette and the bitter-sweet humor and considerate touch that is a defining feature of Russian film. Victor mimics the English he hears on Gherman's transistor radio and its very hard not to smile and love this guy. Victor, Gherman, Lara and her sister Rimma (Yelena Lyadova) double date, switch partners and even that somehow doesn't seem so bad. Part buddy picture, part melodrama and part romantic comedy, Dreams of Space is warm, sentimental and visually engaging.

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Whatchable, but nothing special, 24 September 2005
5/10
Author: Reviewer123 from US

What is this movie really about? How bad it was to live in USSR? Or how American music was supposedly better than Russian? And what does all of that have to do with space travel? My take on this: even though made in Russia, this movie was made for the West. Why? Well, first, the story line is primitive and characters are not developed (anticipating viewers ADD and taste). A Western viewer, if he ever goes to see a foreign, or, even worse, Russian movie, expects simple things: grotesque scenes from Russian life, plump Russian girls, drunk Russian guys, "superior" American music and lifestyle, and, of course, something peculiar to Russia - in this case, Yuri Gagarin. It's too bad Mironov has degraded to movies such as this one or "Pobeg". Evgenii Tsyganov's role is too simple: there's almost no acting and he is far from his best (as in "Deti Arbata"). It would be really nice if Russian DVDs had labels such as: "this movie was made for Westerners" or "for Moscovites only" :), so I would know what to avoid...

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