Laika

Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics. Soon after her lift-off into space, a number of animals follow that are hurriedly launched from Houston and Baikonur. The animals travel astray, but finally manage, with the help of a black hole, to colonize a faraway planet. After a short period of harmonious, undisturbed co-existence with indigenous life forms, however, first human cosmonaut run ashore on their planet, and their harmonious life, indeed their very survival, are suddenly in jeopardy.

• surreal
• surrealism
• alien
• stop motion
• creature
• planet
• astronaut
• dog
• puppet film
• grotesque
• animal lead
• european animation
• outer space
• spaceship
• grotesque film
• surreal comedy
• stop motion animation
• surreal film
• czech animation
• czech comedy
• european comedy
• grotesque imagery
• czech surrealism
• czech science fiction
• european science fiction
• dog as protagonist
• dog in outer space
• animal in outer space