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New UK Trailer and Poster for Russian Sci-Fi Thriller SPUTNIK

sputnik Oksana Akinshina
The Russian sci-fi hit comes to UK/ROI Digital in August.


An expansion of his earlier short film, director Egor Abramenko's debut feature Sputnik stars Oksana Akinshina (Lilya 4-Ever, The Bourne Supremacy) as a psychologist assigned to a Russian cosmonaut who crash-lands following a botched space mission. In the tradition of Quatermass, it seems he may have brought something back from space with him.

The top streaming title in Russia over the past two years, Sputnik comes to UK/ROI Digital August 14th.

Check out the UK trailer, poster and official synopsis below.




sputnik poster

The official synopsis reads:

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commanding astronaut as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the astronaut's mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him.