Space Sailors

Overview

They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Inter-cosmos Program they were about to conquer space. The second they touched down, they were treated like pop stars and worshiped as heroes. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?

Cast

Vladimír Remek

Self

Mirosław Hermaszewski

Self

Sigmund Jähn

Self

Georgi Ivanov

Self

Bertalan Farkas

Self

Pham Tuân

Self

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Self

Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa

Self

Dumitru Prunariu

Self

Abdul Ahad Mohmand

Self

Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Self (archive footage)