Signals A Space Adventure

The influences are obvious in Signale: Ein Weltraumabenteuer (Signals: A Space Adventure), a big-budget sci-fi actioner that’s higher on chat than actual action but was popular in the Eastern Bloc when it came out in 1970. A co-production between the German Democratic Republic and Poland, it takes its cues from Star Trek and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with its informal multi-racial crews, silent spaceships gliding through the solar system and its fascination with weightlessness. As the film opens the spaceship Ikaros is being bombarded by meteorites. Devastation. Everyone on board dead, or that’s the official line at any rate. One man isn’t so sure. Veikko, captain of the spaceship Laika, decides to … Read more