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Space Dogs

2019

Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Documentary, Voice: Aleksey Serebryakov

5.8

166

Documentary 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 alongside her free-drifting descendants.

	Media	Author	Review
		Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"Beware – Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s title is the scariest film of the year (...) [It] stayed with me well past the credits, although I was exhausted beyond recognition."
		The Hollywood Reporter	"Excellently photographed and occasionally helped by a sober, evocative voiceover, the film proves something of a ruse, using its space-faring conceit mostly as an excuse to spend most of an hour and a half following a pack of indifferent street mutts around silently."
		Alex Mistlin The Guardian	"Soviet archive film is juxtaposed with inane modern footage of Moscow strays, marring what might have been an insightful documentary (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"'Space Dogs' commits to its art-house pretensions. The result isn’t pleasant, but it does effectively provoke."
		Leonardo Goi The Film Stage	"It conjures an unflinching and all too vivid portrait that vaults from moments of tenderness to scenes of unspeakable violence (...) It’s an exercise in empathy––and a spellbinding one at that."

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