Review of Voyage to the End of the Universe

Ikarie XB 1 is an upper class science fiction from the old Czechoslovakia, the plot resume in a travel to Alpha Centauri from Earth's space station, a sort of Iron Curtain's countries enterprise, it takes place at 2163, based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, when the race to the moon just began and the Russia put the first astronaut on space, a slight ahead from USA's efforts, so start this point the Spacecraft travelling through space meeting in the middle an older US's spacecraft with atomic weapons inside, a bit criticism to America's space project, an optimistic outlook over space travel, many generation interacting together, female's crew, unexplained large space for entertainment or exercise gym, whatever many inconsistences, Kubrick certainly uses many elements and concepts from this picture to conceive 2001, the American's version was totally mutilated and introduced an alternative ending, a true achievement from Czech's filmmaker Jindrich Polák, remarkable piece of the science fiction!!

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First watch: 2013 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD-R-DVD / Rating: 8.25