Lajka

Lajka
Directed by Aurel Klimt
Produced by Aurel Klimt
Screenplay by Aurel Klimt, Martin Velíšek
Music by Marek Doubrava
Production
company
Studio Zvon
Release date
  • 2 November 2017 (2017-11-02)
Running time
 85 minutes
Country Czech Republic
Language Czech
Budget 58 million CZK[1]

Lajka (in English: Laika) is a 2017 Czech animated science fiction comedy film. It is inspired by Soviet space dog Laika.[2]

Plot

The film starts in Baikonur. Female dog is caught while trying to find something to feed her puppies. She is named Laika and brought to local spaceport. Professor Voroljov and his assistant Kokotov start to prepare Laika for travael to space. Day before the launch, Laika manages to get out of her cage and visits the Spacerocket. Then she returns for her Puppies and smuggles them to the rocket. Next day she is launched to the Space along with her puppies who are hidden inside the rocket. Message of Laika's primacy arrives to the United States. Americans in response send a chimpanzee Ham to Space. Ham is followed by other rockets with different animals. All these rockets arrive to planet called Qem. They meet inhabitants of the planet and are accompanied by Quirkrk. Animals are happy in the new environment as it doesn't contain people. Soviets send cosmonaut Jurij Levobočkin to space. He is sent to Moon but arrives to Qem instead. He meets Lajka. He settles down but misses meat. Inhabitants of the planet starts to get missing it is revealed that Levobočkin is hunting and eating them. Laika and Ham are fighting him just as he wants to bake Quirkrk. The clash ends when Levobočkin falls to the furnace. Animals leave but Levobočkin survives. He wants his revenge and animals prepare for battle against him. American astronaut Neil Knokaut arrives and joins Levobočkin. Battle ends with Levobočkin and Knokaut being frozen.[3]

Voice actors

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Loutkové sci-fi Lajka je o vztahu člověka ke zvířatům a vesmíru". www.ceskenoviny.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Lajka (2017)". Czech and Slovak Film Database (in Czech). Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  3. ↑ "Lajka (2017)". Filmový přehled (in Czech). Retrieved 23 February 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.