I Was a Sputnik of the Sun

Name: I Was a Sputnik of the Sun
Director: Viktor Morgenstern
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Released: 1959-04-13
Rating: 4.571
Cast: Pavel Makhotin, Georgiy Shamshurin, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgiy Vitsin, Pavel Samarin

Original title: Я был спутником солнца

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Synopsis

Soviet Scientist Petrovich pioneers the way to the Sun, but his spacecraft is never heard from again. Later, Andrew's laboratory investigates means of protection from deadly radiation. Andrew repeats Petrovich's journey, and offers his life to rescue an orbiting science laboratory, which holds the solution to the problem.