It’s the 1960s and the world powers compete on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Spaceflights are one of the battlefields where they compare their “muscles of steel”. The wheels of history will literally take a Czechoslovak cosmonaut up to the stars and in the following years will send him to other incredible and once-in-a-life situations within the context of world history. From a son defying his father to space. From a prominent through a museum employee to the highest floors of European politics…
You just can’t stop life and a fighter plane…
– Petr Horký, FILM DIRECTOR
ABOUT THE FILM
A biographical documentary film about Vladimir Remek is to present different views of his life – the first Czechoslovak cosmonaut and a communist awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union… later a Member of the European Parliament, significantly engaged in placing the headquarters of the Galileo system in the Czech Republic and considered the first European cosmonaut by the European Space Agency (ESA), and finally the Czech Ambassador to the Russian Federation at the end of his career. A personality who received best wishes for his 70th birthday from both the director of the European Space Agency and the director of the Roscosmos State Corporation. But at the same time also an almost forgotten museum employee and a sales representative. And this all in the context of the development of cosmonautics from the 1970s until now. We are planning to shoot scenes for the film in Moscow and the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Steppe, in the ESA Headquarters in France and the European Parliament, in Germany and Slovakia, and in Europe’s Spaceport in French Guyana, or in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston. It is the first film about Vladimir Remek’s life and we would also like to publish a book. But we will see what we will be allowed to do by international Covid restrictions.
What jobs has he had? His nostalgia for Russia and flying planes… drones today… and you can judge for yourself what role a personality plays in history…
STAFF
Petr Horký
Director, Script, Theme
Petr Horký
Director, Script, Theme
Petr Horký is a well known director of more than 100 travel documentaries (documentary series about rock climbing in the Balkans, the achievements of Czech archaeology abroad, world’s travel highlights and a famous Czech traveller Miroslav Zikmund, or about the metamorphoses of the world, a human body, health, medical treatment and artificial insemination…). He organizes or co-organizes some travel and film festivals (WorldFilm, BANFF and Unknown Earth) and is the author or co-author of many books (a bestseller The Old Man and the World about Miroslav Zikmund, travel books about Albania, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Cuba, and other non-fiction books…).
Travelling round the world has brought him some nice collaboration and a lot of marvellous meetings and filming with Thor Heyerdahl, Reinhold Messner, Arthur C. Clark, Erich von Däniken, Edmund Hillary, James Lovell and others. For two decades he has been collaboration with a famous Czech traveller Miroslav Zikmund sharing both their production and intergeneration friendship. In 2014 they together sent a documentary film about Miroslav Zikmund to cinemas. The Old Man and the World became the most popular documentary film of that year and was nominated for the annual Czech film award.
Jiří Dušek
Theme, Astronautics Consultant
Jiří Dušek
Theme, Astronautics Consultant
*1971, Director of Brno Observatory and Planetarium
In 1978, thanks to Vladimir Remek and the first Czechoslovak satellite Magion 1, he committed his soul to outer space. He more or less successfully graduated in astrophysics and has written several books about space (but also about spy satellites and nuclear weapons). He is the author of several scripts for planetarium shows (and also a director) and even today he still takes up a telescope to look at the stars. Since 2008 he has been Director of Brno Observatory and Planetarium. Nowadays he also coordinates popularisation of science and technology in the South Moravian Region and he is a member of the Senate of the Czech Republic. He loves Asia in all forms it offers. He is fascinated by futuristic audiovisual technologies and the microclimate of his family. He does not eat typical Czech sweet food “Dukátové buchtičky”, little yeast buns with vanilla cream.
Petr Juklíček
Production Manager
Petr Juklíček
Production Manager
*1973
He started his career as the script editor of Studio 6 in the Czech TV and then worked in promotions and for PR agencies. He has participated in many projects dealing with strategic communications, legislation, public relations and public affairs and political and sports marketing, and has produced all sorts of events including TV broadcasts.
Now he is engaged in filmmaking.
PARTNERS
A thousand times you can say it is always only about money and a thousand times I will answer if business partners have no other common goal than a profit, they will not get anywhere. When dealing about possible partnerships, we always ask if we also share a common view of the world and if there is anything else that connects us.
We are proud to present the following partners: