Lajka
Laika
Das Leben ist kein Zuckerschlecken für Laika, Straßenköter am Rande einer russischen Großstadt. Sie wird eingefangen und abgerichtet, um zur Weltraumpionierin zu werden, und bald folgen ihr weitere Tiere, eilig von Houston und Baikonur aus ins All geschossen. Durch ein Schwarzes Loch gelangen sie zu einem fernen Planeten, wo sie sich in Koexistenz mit den dortigen BewohnerInnen ansiedeln. Als aber der erste menschliche Kosmonaut landet, ist alles in Gefahr. - Es ist faszinierend, mit welcher Überheblichkeit Menschen über Existenz oder Nichtexistenz anderer Wesen entscheiden. Ich halte das für eines der wichtigsten Themen der Gegenwart. (Aurel Klimt)
This Czech puppet animation takes a wry, cynical look at the early days of the Soviet space program as viewed by Laika, the first living creature shot into space. In 1957, Laika became a world-renowed, heroic-cutesy figure - until children asked their parents when she’d be coming home, and the Russian space agency had to admit that she’d been sent on a suicide mission. This isn’t the first fiction to imagine a happier outcome for Laika and her animal comrades, but it is quite probably the strangest. It’s so heroically unsuitable for children that many kids will love it, even if they don’t get all the perverse alien sex jokes. (Kim Newman)
Director's Biography
Aurel Klimt
Aurel Klimt was born in Žilina in Slovakia in 1972. He graduated from the animation department of FAMU in Prague in 1999 and has been teaching there since. In 2000 he founded Zvon Studio in Malešov, and started writing, producing, animating and editing his own films. His latest feature “Laika” (2017) was awarded with the Czech Lion. Aurel Klimt also writes theatre plays and produces commercials.
Film Selection: Lajka (Laika, 2017) - Hrbáci z Damasku, Segment of Fimfárum II (Filmfarum II, 2006, omnibus film) - Fimfárum, Franta Nebojsa, Segment of Fimfárum Jana Wericha (Filmfarum, 2002, omnibus film) - Krvavý Hugo (Bloody Hugo, 1998, short) - Maskin zabil Koskina (Maskin Kills Koskin, 1996, short)
Aurel Klimt was born in Žilina in Slovakia in 1972. He graduated from the animation department of FAMU in Prague in 1999 and has been teaching there since. In 2000 he founded Zvon Studio in Malešov, and started writing, producing, animating and editing his own films. His latest feature “Laika” (2017) was awarded with the Czech Lion. Aurel Klimt also writes theatre plays and produces commercials.
Film Selection: Lajka (Laika, 2017) - Hrbáci z Damasku, Segment of Fimfárum II (Filmfarum II, 2006, omnibus film) - Fimfárum, Franta Nebojsa, Segment of Fimfárum Jana Wericha (Filmfarum, 2002, omnibus film) - Krvavý Hugo (Bloody Hugo, 1998, short) - Maskin zabil Koskina (Maskin Kills Koskin, 1996, short)
European Panorama Fiction 2019
Aurel Klimt
Tschechien 2017
3D, color
88 Minuten
Tschechisch OmeU
Drehbuch Aurel Klimt
Kamera Radek Loukota
Schnitt Aurel Klimt
Ton/Sounddesign Marek Musil
Musik Marek Doubrava, Josef Čermák
Mit Jan Budar, Petr Ctvrtnícek, Helena Dvoráková, Miroslav Táborský, Jan Vondrácek, Karel Zima
Produzent*innen Aurel Klimt
Produktion
Studio ZVON, Universal Production Partners, Studio Bystrouška, Česká televize
Weltvertrieb
Studio ZVON
Österreichpremiere
Weltpremiere
Festival Premiere: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018
Festival PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere
