Cinema Partenio | at 4.30pm
Directed by: Andrei Ujică
Starring: Sergei Krikalev, Anatoli Artsebarski, Aleksandr Volkov
Year: 1995
Country: Germany, Russia, France, Belgium
Running Time: 96′
Produced by: Bremer Institut Film/Fernsehen
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Plot: In August 1991, tanks advanced on the White House in Moscow, the seat of the Russian Soviet Republic (RSFSR) government. Although the coup failed, the Soviet Union rapidly dissolved in the following months. Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev wasn’t there when it happened: in May 1991, he had left for the Mir space station from the Soviet Union. When he returned 10 months later, he landed in Russia.