Movie review: The Space Dream, a Chinese movie drama from 2011!

Propaganda movies are mostly for and against what people stands for, but sometimes it can be for a good cause, for example dreams to come true. The Chinese movie from 2011 "The Space Dream" is a propaganda movie but not about politics but about an old man and his fight for his dream to be an astronaut. 

Story:

Zhang Tiancong (Liu Zhibing) is a first class trained astronaut together with his team Li Daowei (Wu Gang) Zhu Guanzhong (Zhao Xiaoming), however due to their age the government decides to put them as reserve team, a younger team will take over the project. Li and Zhu choose to early retire but Zhang choose to stay with the young team and train with them. They take him to Russia where he train with astronauts from America, India, and Russia. meanwhile his wife Qu Dan (Niu Li) gets a horrible news that her husbands mother is going to in a minute, but if she tell her husband it damage his training in Russia, what she does is for the sake of a astronaut.

Overall:

Although it was ment to be a Chinese space program propaganda, the story takes over it beautifully. One can feel much for the astronaut struggling for his age and his dream. And how his family struggling with him is heart beating. China is excellent on making stories and keep propaganda to a limit. I reward this Space Dream with 9/10.