Sputnik (2020)

The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.

Director:

Egor Abramenko

Writers:

Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Zolotarev

Stars:

Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov

1 win & 14 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Oksana Akinshina	...	Tatyana Klimova
Fedor Bondarchuk	...	Colonel Semiradov
Pyotr Fyodorov	...	Konstantin Veshnyakov
Anton Vasilev	...	Yan Rigel
Aleksey Demidov	...	Kirill Averchenko
Anna Nazarova	...	Nurse
Aleksandr Marushev	...	Convict Ruben
Albrecht Zander	...	Convict Seryj
Vitaliya Kornienko	...	Child in Orphanage
Vasiliy Zotov	...	Biologist

Storyline

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander's mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him.

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Plot Keywords:

spaceship | female protagonist | monster | creature | scientist | 

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Taglines:

Man has a new inhabitant.

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Around 70% of the film's scenes were shot at the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry in Moscow. It was built in 1959 and is a good example of brutalist Soviet architecture.

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Goofs

When Tatyana is first arriving at the facility in Kazakhstan, the guards are watching the car convoy arrive through a window and press the button to open the gate. In the next scene, the gate opens and the convoy enters the facility. A dog is walking near the fence by the gate, but was not visible in the area in the previous scene from the guardhouse.

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Connections

Referenced in Evening Urgant: Artem Dzyuba/Pyotr Fyodorov/Fedor Bondarchuk (2020)

User Reviews

It has Been A Long Time Since A Good Alien Movie

This is a very well done sci-fi with a solid creature which isn't too over the top and is kept just simple enough to really work. Some of the only gems coming out of the horror and sci fi genres these days are the indie/foreign films and this one delivers a scary creature without getting so bogged down and convoluted as some of the more recent big budget films. It is subtitled but you can still appreciate that the actors/actresses were quite good. It was an unexpected surprise and I recommend it to anyone surging through the massive catalog of cookie cutter and ridiculous horror movies of late.

Details

Official Sites:

Art pictures RU Official directors website

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian Latin

Release Date:

24 July 2020 (Estonia)

Also Known As:

Sputnik

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$11,024, 16 August 2020

Gross USA:

$18,853

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$342,490

Company Credits

Production Co:

Art Pictures Studio, Fond kino, Hype Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1