Sputnik (film)

Sputnik
Sputnik
	Promotional release poster
Directed by	Egor Abramenko
Written by	Oleg Malovichko; Andrei Zolotarev;
Produced by	Mikhail Vrubel; Aleksandr Andryushchenko; Fyodor Bondarchuk; Ilya Stewart; Murad Osmann; Pavel Burya; Vyacheslav Murugov; Alina Tyazhlova; Michael Kitaev; Ilya Jincharadze;
Starring	Oksana Akinshina; Fyodor Bondarchuk; Pyotr Fyodorov; Anton Vasiliev;
Cinematography	Maxim Zhukov
Edited by	Aleksandr Puzyryov; Egor Tarasenko
Music by	Oleg Karpachev
Production; companies	Vodorod Pictures; Art Pictures Studio; Hype Film; National Media Group Studio; STS;
Distributed by	Sony Pictures
Release date	April 23, 2020 (Russia);
Running time	113 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽190 million; (~US$2.6 million)
Box office	$354,023

Sputnik (Russian: Спутник) is a 2020 Russian science-fiction horror film directed by Egor Abramenko in his feature directorial debut. It stars Oksana Akinshina as a young doctor who is recruited by the Soviet military to assess a cosmonaut who survived a mysterious space accident and returned to Earth with a dangerous organism living inside him. Alongside Akinshina, the film's cast includes Pyotr Fyodorov and Fyodor Bondarchuk.

Sputnik was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020 prior to the festival being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released on video-on-demand in Russia on April 23, 2020. It received generally positive reviews from critics.