Sputnik
(2020)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 1,017 votes
Year: 2020
Runtime: 113 мин
Country: Russia
Director: Egor Abramenko
Cast: Оксана Акиньшина, Фёдор Бондарчук, Пётр Фёдоров, Антон Васильев, Алексей Демидов, Анна Назарова, Albrecht Sander, Виталия Корниенко, Василий Зотов, Александр Марушев
Plot
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…
In 1983, Soviet cosmonaut Konstantin Veshnyakov survives a catastrophic return from space while his crew-mate Kirill Averchenko dies under horrifying circumstances. Colonel Semiradov recruits Dr. Tatyana Yuryevna Klimova to examine the traumatized survivor at a remote research facility. She soon discovers an alien organism emerging from Veshnyakov each night, bound to him in a symbiotic relationship. As her investigation deepens, hidden experiments, political ambitions, and increasingly disturbing feeding practices reveal the true cost of keeping both host and creature alive, pushing Klimova toward a desperate solution.