Sergio and Sergei, beyond the fiction, the human essence

Reflection of Human Conflicts, the feature film that made its first presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017, aims to show us "Not a film of space, but a proposal where we were the center," said its director, Ernesto Daranas in a press conference, developed in this heritage city.

The story of a Cuban radio amateur, professor of Marxism, and Sergei, the last Soviet cosmonaut who is almost forgotten in the damaged Mir Orbital Station, "proves the confluence zone of good and evil in the very spiritual connotation that meant the special period in Cuba; Beyond the shortcomings, in the quest for national spirituality, "said Daranas.

" I have an obsession with the emotional and cultural matrix, because we are better than the needs that cause us moments difficult; The film also shows how we were and thought about 30 years ago, "commented the director of Los dioses rotos (2008).

The film, which began production in 2015, is a co-production of Mediapro, RTV Comercial and Cuban Institute of Art and the Film Industry (ICAIC), in badociation with Wing and a Prayer Pictures and Westend Films, was shot in addition to Havana in Barcelona

L & # 39; The work team, after a long documentation process, managed the confluence of three languages: Russian, Spanish and English, and relied on the talent of young artists graduated from Cuban art schools such as Alejandro Menéndez, who saw the work as "a narrative necessity where the principles of the 90s must be seen from family nostalgia and constructive character."

Héctor Noa, in Sergei's interpretation Krikalev says that "this has been a challenge due to the comp the lexity of the weightless and physical appearance that the character required, as well as the dialogues in Russian. "

The famous Cuban actor joins in the film the American actor Ron Perlman, described by Daranas as an extraordinary professional and human.

In the broad theoretical workshop on feature film offered by his filmmakers, the presentation of the silkscreen of the production was done by Raúl Valdés (Raupa), and this reflects a bicycle charged with propelling a Russian rocket.

The artist himself commented on the film's official website that "this is a point or comparison between the size of the USSR (a rocket that flies in space ) and the size of a bicycle; the thrust of an ordinary Cuban raises the rocket to space, after those times when we all wanted to be cosmonauts.

The film has won awards such as popularity at the international festivals of the new Latin American cinema in Havana (December 2017)) and Gibara, and Cinelatino Touluse, France

C & # 39; was also the best story in the contest of Central America and the Caribbean, and in Panama, the film has been improved, having had the public preference of the Greater Antilles.

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