I Was a Sputnik of the Sun

The film tells the story of how Vladimir Mayakovsky created his works. He did not need the silence of a study; he created constantly—everywhere and in any setting. The picture includes archival footage, including material from 1917, as well as Mayakovsky’s drawings. Viewers can also see the poet’s working notebook: on the left-hand pages he wrote down thoughts and images, and on the right-hand pages he shaped them into poetic lines.

The picture is dedicated to the work of Soviet medical scientists who studied how stresses that are unknown under ordinary earthly conditions affect a living organism: overloads during exit from the atmosphere, a state of weightlessness, oxygen starvation. Experiments were first carried out on animals: dogs and rats, and later people also participated in the experiments.