Vozvrashchenie s orbity / A1 / Czechoslovakia

11.03.15

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Title
Vozvrashchenie s orbity
AKA
Return from Orbit (English title) | Návrat Z Kosmu (Czechslovakia) | Rückkehr aus dem Orbit (East Germany)
Year of Film
1985
Director
Aleksandr Surin
Starring
Juozas Budraitis, Vitali Solomin, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, Tamara Akulova Igor Vasilev Igor Vasilev Valeri Yurchenko Valeri Yurchenko Mikhail Chigaryov Mikhail Chigaryov Lyubov Sokolova Lyubov Sokolova
Origin of Film
Soviet Union
Genre(s) of Film
Sci-Fi
Type of Poster
A1
Style of Poster
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Origin of Poster
Czechoslovakia
Year of Poster
1985
Designer
Zdeněk Vlach
Artist
Zdeněk Vlach
Size (inches)
22 10/16" x 32 6/16"
SS or DS
SS
Tagline
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This is the Czechoslovakian poster for the release of the obscure Soviet Union sci-fi film Vozvrashchenie s orbity. There’s barely any information about the film online other than this single review on the film’s IMDb page:

“Well,this film looks more like very deep and dramatic space drama. As soon as two friends-cosmonauts came back from space, a lot of things changed on the Earth. The wife of one of them died. And Kuznetsov can not go on flying to space. So he returns to navy aviation. Very soon a serious trouble happens to spacecraft and Kuznetsov flies to space to help his best friend, who was trapped in the closed sector of the craft. As soon as he managed to do that- new troubles start -the meteorite wind hits the craft and they have no ability to go back. They have only 12 hours. Then their teacher decides to help his students and saves their lives in space. Very serious and unusual look at the space explorations and true to life situations, not that sci fi. Far more like space necro realism. The score by master of Russian electronic music Edward Artemeyev is perfect, especially in the end of the film it becomes really symphonic dark space ambient. Very rare to find exclusive flick.”

The artwork on this Czech poster is by the late designer Zdeněk Vlach who was born in 1942 in Prague and studied at the School of Art there before working on film posters, commercial art and illustration. He won two awards for his film posters. The artist worked on over 200 posters from 1970 to 1989, which included designs for the likes of Excalibur (1984), Mona Lisa (1988) and Blue Velvet (1986). The website Terry Posters features an extensive gallery of his work. The artist sadly passed away in 1999 at the age of 58.

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