Characters & Themes
The Astronauts (1959) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1959 · 14 mins
- Directed by
- Chris Marker, Walerian Borowczyk
- Starring
- Ligia Branice, Philippe Lifchitz, Michel Boschet, Anatole Dauman
He constructs a makeshift spacecraft in his workshop and launches it into space, embarking on a series of whimsical escapades. His journeys take him to voyeuristic encounters with women, stopovers on planets populated by human‑like inhabitants, and ultimately plunge him into a larger intergalactic conflict.
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