Out of the Present

The film tells of the collapse of the Soviet Union by way of the story of the cosmonaut who was floating in space in 1991, thereby unexpectedly becoming the last Soviet citizen. When he left the earth in May, GORBACHEV was still in power. When he came back ten months later, the cosmonaut KRIKALYOV was congratulated by Boris YELTSIN. It is a film about citizenship seen in the right perspective; about the Russian revolution seen from space; but also about the experience of space during the Russian revolution. Just like the Romanian revolution, it is as if this space trip was made especially for the camera. Fragments of a fictional personal journal and the techno music on the soundtrack are the finishing touches to this surrealist fiction that isn't fiction.