Country: Austria, Germany
Year: 2019
Duration: 91'
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed the streets of Moscow ever since. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, Space Dogs accompanies the adventures of her descendants: two street dogs living in today’s Moscow. Their story is one of intimate fellowship but also relentless brutality, and is interwoven with unseen archive material from the Soviet cosmic era.
Biography
film director
Levin Peter
Levin Peter (Jena, Germany, 1985) studied at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg where he realized several documentaries that were shown worldwide. His diploma film Beyond The Snowstorm won the German Upcoming Film Award and was presented as a guest at the Berlinale.
FILMOGRAFIA
Levin Peter:
Prestes Maia (cm, 2008), Sonor (cm, 2010), A promise (2012), Beyond the Snowstorm (2016).
Space Dogs (2019).
Elsa Kremser
Elsa Kremser (Wolfsberg, Austria, 1986) studied film at the University of Vienna and at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. As an author and producer, she realized several documentaries that were shown worldwide. Among them, Nebel by Nicole Vögele, premiered at the Berlinale. In 2016 she founded the Vienna-based production company Raumzeitfilm with Levin Peter. As a directing duo, they are currently working on their first fiction feature, Der grüne Wellensittich, which received the Berlinale Kompagnon Script Award. Space Dogs is her first feature documentary as a director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter:
Space Dogs (2019).
Declaration
film director
“During the six months we spent with the dogs on the streets of Moscow, we often felt observed and scrutinised by them. Little by little we realised that we knew these animals only as part of our world; we didn’t know ourselves as part of theirs. That’s why we made street dogs the protagonists of our film. These animals on the streets are the ever-questing discoverers of unknown worlds. On their obscure nocturnal prowlings they encounter people who are also strays and outcasts, stranded in the ruins of time.”
Cast
& Credits
elsa kremser, levin peter
SPACE DOGS
Austria-Germania/Austria-Germany, 2019, 91’, bn/bw-col.
space dogs
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/directors, story, screenplay
Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
fotografia/cinematography
Yunus Roy Imer
montaggio/film editing
Jan Soldat, Stephan Bechinger
musica/music
John Gürtler, Jan Miserre
suono/sound
Jonathan Schorr
interprete/cast
Aleksey Serebryakov
produttori/producers
Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
produzione/production
Raumzeitfilm, It Works!
**
contatti/contacts
Deckert Distribution
info@deckert-distribution.com
www.deckert-distribution.com
SPACE DOGS
Austria-Germania/Austria-Germany, 2019, 91’, bn/bw-col.
space dogs
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/directors, story, screenplay
Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
fotografia/cinematography
Yunus Roy Imer
montaggio/film editing
Jan Soldat, Stephan Bechinger
musica/music
John Gürtler, Jan Miserre
suono/sound
Jonathan Schorr
interprete/cast
Aleksey Serebryakov
produttori/producers
Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
produzione/production
Raumzeitfilm, It Works!
**
contatti/contacts
Deckert Distribution
info@deckert-distribution.com
www.deckert-distribution.com
