page_title: Cosmic Voyage (1936 film)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Cosmic Voyage (1936 film) / Production
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Кадр из фильма «Космический рейс» (СССР, 1935 г.)
context_page_description: Cosmic Voyage or The Space Voyage is a 1936 Soviet science fiction film produced by Mosfilm. It was one of the earliest films to represent a realistic spaceflight, including weightlessness.
context_section_description: Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella was initially conceived in 1924 by Russian filmmaker Vasili Zhuravlov, but it was not pursued for production until 1932, when Komsomol (the Communist Union of Youth) recommended the creation of film that would spur an interest in space studies. Zhuravlov consulted with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the noted aeronautical theorist and rocket science engineer, on the screenplay. Tsiolkovsky died shortly after the film was completed.
  Two spaceships in the film were named after the Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov. The film's cosmonauts enter liquid-filled chambers to buffer the impact of takeoff and landing, and they communicate their landing to the Earth by spelling out "CCCP" (the Russian-language acronym for "USSR") with reflective substances spread across the lunar surface.
  Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella was shot as a silent film and had only a brief release in early 1936 before being removed from circulation by Soviet censors, who felt that an animated sequence of cosmonauts hopping across the low-gravity lunar surface was antithetical to the spirit of "socialist realism." It was not widely seen again until the 1980s.
caption: Sergei Komarov as a cosmonaut
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