{{Short description|1962 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Man in Outer Space | image = The Man from the First Century, Czechoslovak film 1962, film poster.jpg | caption = | director = Oldřich Lipský | producer = | story = Miloš Fiala<br>Jan Fišer<br>Oldřich Lipský | writer = Oldřich Lipský<br>Zdeněk Bláha<br>Miloš Fiola<br>Jan Fišer | starring = Miloš Kopecký | music = Ladislav Simon<br>Zdeněk Liška | cinematography = Vladimír Novotný | editing = Jan Kohout | studio = Filmové studio Barrandov | distributor = Ústřední půjčovna filmů | released = {{film date|1962|3|23|df=y}} | runtime = 91 min. | country = Czechoslovakia | language = Czech }}
'''''Man in Outer Space''''' AKA '''''The Man from the First Century''''' ({{langx|cs|'''Muž z prvního století'''}}) is a 1962 Czechoslovak science fiction comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský. It was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3205/year/1962.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Man in Outer Space |access-date=23 February 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>
==Plot==
Set in the second half of the 20th century, plans are in place to launch the first Czech spacecraft. Upholsterer Josef (played by Miloš Kopecký ) makes the final adjustments to the vehicle and accidentally starts the ship. He flies to the planet Blue Star. There, he meets planet inhabitant Adam (Radovan Lukavský), and they both return to Earth. Somehow, 600 years have passed. Josef ends up in a psychiatric hospital, but escapes, and with the help of the Adam, who is apparently invisible on Earth, he returns to his own timeline.
==Cast== * Miloš Kopecký as Josef, an upholsterer * Radovan Lukavský as Adam * Otomar Krejča as Academic * Vít Olmer as Engineer Petr * Anita Kajlichova as Psychiatrist Eva * Lubomír Lipský as Order fulfillment clerk * Vladimír Hlavatý as Director of the Rocket factory * Josef Hlinomaz as Foreman
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0056265}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGPLJsUjeOk Scenes from the film used in the video "I Want To Be A Robot" by Eva Hurychová]
{{Oldřich Lipský}}
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