The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
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Well, what do we have here? Could this be one of those films that have stopped coming from big studios a long time ago? Could this be a decent, well-made and thought provoking story in an interesting setting with great visuals and acting? In 2020?
Well, yes! Leave it to the Russians to bring some loving Sci-Fi back. Set in an intriguingly nostalgic feeling USSR of the 80s, "Sputnik" is a slow-paced, but increasingly intense story that manages to make you think a bit. The characters are nuanced, the plot is adequate, the cinematography very nice to excellent, and even the CGI is better than many films with way higher budgets.
If you don't try to project any "Western" expectations onto it and maybe even understand the "Russian soul" a bit, you will definitely enjoy this.
Well, yes! Leave it to the Russians to bring some loving Sci-Fi back. Set in an intriguingly nostalgic feeling USSR of the 80s, "Sputnik" is a slow-paced, but increasingly intense story that manages to make you think a bit. The characters are nuanced, the plot is adequate, the cinematography very nice to excellent, and even the CGI is better than many films with way higher budgets.
If you don't try to project any "Western" expectations onto it and maybe even understand the "Russian soul" a bit, you will definitely enjoy this.
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- TriviaAround 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.
- GoofsWhen 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.
- Quotes
Tatyana Klimova: Are you allergic to Buspironum?
Security guard: Me? I don't think so...
[Tatyana stabs him in the neck with a sedative syringe]
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- Budget
- RUR 190,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,853
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,024
- Aug 16, 2020
- Gross worldwide
- $354,023
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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What was the official certification given to Sputnik - Espèce Inconnue (2020) in Brazil?
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