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Space Tourists (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Sundance Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Romanian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Russian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Christian Frei

Written By:
Christian Frei

Actors:
Anousheh Ansari ..... Herself
Jonas Bendiksen ..... Himself - Magnum Photographer
Dumitru Popescu ..... Himself
Charles Simonyi ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Frei's film takes a humorous and laconic view of the way billionaires depart our planet earth to travel into outer space for fun. Space Tourists succeeds in surprising its audience with images and situations that have very little to do with the futuristic fantasy of space-tourism. The filmmaker sets up encounters with the least likely people imaginable: places even stranger and more unknown than outer space itself. The film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and questions the meaning and boundaries of the human spirit and our hunger for adventure and discovery.

Space Tourists succeeds in surprising its audience with images and situations that have very little to do with the futuristic fantasy of 'space-tourism'. The filmmaker sets up encounters with the least likely people imaginable: places even stranger and more unknown than outer space itself. With extra-ordinary access and truly first-time images the film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and questions the meaning and boundaries of the human spirit and our hunger for adventure and discovery.

Ever since she was a child, Anousheh Ansari has dreamt of going into outer space. A number of years and $20 million later, Ansari dream is realized with the help of the Russian space program. After a rigorous training regime in Star City, Kazakhstan, she becomes the first female space tourist.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 January, 2011.