Thought I'd have myself a little season of some vintage scifi from behind the Iron Curtain and I'm hoping it's all as magnificent as Ikarie XB-1 - a Czech film from 1962 about a journey to Alpha Centauri in search of other intelligences based on one of the few Stanislaw Lem novels (The Magellan Cloud) that I've yet to read.
It's a surprisingly beautiful and thoughtful B&W epic about long term space travel and the inherent dangers involved that's well acted and keeps ticking along at a decent crack. The SFX are as you'd expect a bit ropey but it's a fantastic film that really deserves much more recognition especially given it's purported influence on Kubrick's 2001.
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