NkAP - ICARUS

Nkap | Icarus
Icarus The lost Cosmonaut
Sci-fi - Drama
15 mins
1920x1080 HD
2022

With
Ivan Senin as Vladimir
Violetta Khankova as Gaia
Mila Surguci as Vladimir's mother
Andrea Artur Allegri as Vladimir as child
Renato Di Siro as Vladimir's father.

Set design: Silvia Moro

Written & directed by
Seth Morley

Editing & cinematography by
Seth Morley

Original score by
Emilio Pozzolini (port-royal)

Sound mix
Emilio Pozzolini

Assistant director and sound recordist
Roberto Rup Paolini

Studio Assistants
Alberto Dedè and Bruno Pulici, ZU studio

Produced by
CARBOLUCE
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The film is inspired by the story of Vladimir Ilyushin and other unknown cosmonauts that lost their lives trying to reach the space.
The idea of the film starts after reading an article by Massimo Corbucci about his theory that human been can't escape from the Earth because when we reach an altitude around 400km over the sea our mind stops working and our thought disappear.

Vladimir Ilyushin is the son of one of the Soviet Union’s best known aicraft designers, Serghei Ilyushin.
During the 1960s, Serghei Ilyushin was a politically powerful figure, a deputy leader of the Soviet Supreme and the recipient of three medals as “Hero of the Soviet Union”.
His son, Vladimir, was the most distinguished of soviet test pilots.
In 1959 he set the world altitude record, when he reached 30,000 meters in his Sukhoi-9 jet fighter. In 1960 he received the “Hero of the Soviet Union” medal for his high-altitude and high-speed test flights.
Ilyushin did not at first join the Cosmonauts’ Corps. He was not a part of the team that was pictured in a 1959 photo-reportage published in the popular magazine "Ogonyok". At that time, he was concentrating all his efforts on gaining the world altitude record. Soon he realized that his record would pale when compared with the achievement of reaching Earth orbit. Perhaps because of his father’s considerable political clout, Vladimir Ilyushin was allowed to join the original cosmonauts a year after their group was originally formed. He reportedly went through a special intensive training program and quickly surfaced as the most talented cosmonaut in the group. In early 1961, some photographs were published in the Soviet Union, that showed Vladimir Ilyushin undergoing spaceflight
training.
One of his colleagues had been launched into space in secret on February 2, 1961. Something went wrong during the early part of that flight and the pilot became unconscious. Unable to return to Earth before the beginning of the second orbit and forced to remain in space until the 17th orbit in order to avoid a forced landing on foreign soil, the
cosmonaut perished in space.
Vladimir Ilyushin was scheduled for the following flight. The fault having apparently being rectified, his capsule, named "Rossiya" was launched in the morning of April 7th, 1961.
It has been reported that, once again, something in the capsule went wrong. Before completion of the first orbit, the pilot stopped responding to the radio calls from mission control. Ilyushin had lost consciousness and a tragic repeat of the February mission was unfolding.