Sputnik

Sputnik

2020 · 113 min · RU · R · 6.5 (983 votes)
Dir. Egor Abramenko · Starring Oksana Akinshina, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilyev, Aleksey Demidov, Anna Nazarova · Music Oleg Karpachev

The only survivor did not come back alone.

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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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This is a stark, dread-soaked sci-fi horror that builds clinical tension. It feels like a grim, isolated examination of humanity's fragility against an unknowable, symbiotic threat, wrapped in a chilling Cold War aesthetic. A truly unsettling experience.

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