[News] IFC Midnight Unveils Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller SPUTNIK

[News] IFC Midnight Unveils Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller SPUTNIK
Courtesy of IFC Midnight
IFC Midnight is proud to present the official poster and trailer for Egor Abramenko’s stirring feature directorial debut SPUTNIK, a sci-fi thriller inspired by his acclaimed short The Passenger, which debuted at Fantastic Fest in 2017. Make sure you check out the trailer below and let us know what you think.

Written by Oleg Malovichko (The Method, Attraction) and Andrei Zolotarev (Dance to Death, Partner), SPUTNIK takes place at height of the Cold War when a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor.

SPUTNIK was set to have its world premiere in the Midnight section at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, and IFC Midnight will release the film on August 14th, 2020.

Due to her controversial methods, young doctor Tatiana Yurievna (Oksana Akinshina – Lilya 4-Ever) is on the precipice of losing her medical license. Her career may not be over, though. After she’s recruited by the military, Tatiana is brought to a secure science research facility to assess a very special case, that of Konstantin Sergeyevich (Pyotr Fyodorov), a cosmonaut who survived a mysterious space accident and has returned to Earth with a unique condition: there’s something living inside of him that only shows itself late at night. The military has nefarious plans for it. Tatiana wants to stop it from killing Konstantin. And the creature itself thrives on destruction.

Due to the ever-large shadow of influence and importance cast by Ridley Scott’s Alien, extraterrestrial malevolence in genre cinema more often than not feels as if it’s been beamed down directly from the Nostromo. SPUTNIK bucks that tradition of pastiche and delivers something fresh to the interplanetary monster-movie canon. And with its massive scale and brutal carnage, this sci-fi gem signals the arrival of a major new voice: first-time Russian director Egor Abramenko.

SPUTNIK will open in select theatres, digital platforms, and cable VOD on August 14, 2020.

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