Season 1 - 8 x 60 minutes | World Premiere at CANNESERIES Season 9
English
French & English subtitles
Episodes 1 & 2
Screening of two episodes, in the presence of the creators Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, and the actors Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin and Agnes O'Casey.
Synopsis
STAR CITY is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race - when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward.
Note from the artistic direction
A highly awaited spin-off of For All Mankind, whose 5th season has just been released on Apple TV, Star City carries on with the uchronia initiated by the original show, with the same starting point but from the opposite perspective: we find ourselves on the soviet side at the moment they become the first to send a man to the moon. A dizzying immersion into the hell of power in the USSR and the relentless manipulation it exerts over its most prominent citizens. Featuring Rhys Ifans as the head of the space program, among others.