Alexey is the daredevil and Pavel is the steady hand, and although their personalities compete at times, they also become the perfect cosmonauts for the job.Īs is the standard case with movies detailing anything space in the 60’s, there is peril at every turn, safety corners get cut in the name of getting the rocket in the air, and there is always something that goes wrong where the crew might die. How? Well, the USSR has been working on a spaceship with the capability for a spacewalk, but things are moving slow, and quite frankly, they need someone who loves danger combined with someone with a steady hand, to pilot the thing. What to do? Accelerate their timeline.Įnter Alexey (Evgeniy Mironov) and Pavel (Konstatin Khabenskly), with some help from Sergey (Vladimir Ilin). The United States had their timetable to get a man out of the capsule and hang around in the emptiness of space, but the USSR needed the win.

There’s a win for one country here, a win for the other there, and the next step, other than the ultimate destination, the moon, is to have someone “walk” in space. So, here we are, in the 1960’s and it’s the full-blown, “United States v. I know, no one really wants to “read” while watching a movie, but the voices in English of the folks who dubbed the movie were so far off from what you probably imagine the characters sound like, that, well, it can almost ruin a wonderful film. Let me start this review with a helpful hint: Watch “Spacewalker” with the language set to “Russian” and have the English subtitles. They were supposed to do what no man has done before-and no man imagined what would happen next.Rated: Not Rated | Running Time: 137 Minutesįrom: MPI Media Group / capelight picturesĪvailable on DVD and Digital Platforms: January 19, 2021 Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown.

Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space.

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