SIFF Movie Club: Ikarie XB 1 (4K Restoration)
January 7, 2026
A visionary work of Eastern Bloc science fiction, this mesmerizing Czechoslovak adaptation of a novel by Stanisław Lem melds Cold War ideology and utopian futurism into a tour de force of space-age modernism. 4K restoration.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
In the year 2163, a band of astronauts embarks on a fifteen-year voyage deep into outer space, in hopes of discovering life in another galaxy. It’s a perilous journey during which they will confront the wreckage of the twentieth century, the chilling vastness of the cosmos, and their own mortality. A triumph of avant-garde production design that served as a model for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ikarie XB 1—long known internationally only through a mangled and dubbed reedit—is a singular sci-fi landmark that finds both terror and wonder in the unknown.
- Director: Jindřich Polák
- Principal Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, František Smolík, Dana Medřická
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Year: 1963
- Running Time: 86 min.
- Producer: Rudolph Wolf
- Screenplay: Pavel Jurácek, Jindřich Polák
- Cinematographers: Jan Kalis
- Editors: Josef Dobrchovsky
- Language: Polish, Czech
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- US Distributor: Janus Films