Sputnik years - Space Pirates

Directed by

Enrico Cerasuolo, Paolo Ceretto, Alesandro Bernard

Written by

Enrico Cerasuolo, Paolo Ceretto, Alesandro Bernard

Produced by

Studio International

Documentary, France, 2007, 52 min

Only few people know the story of these pioneers of space communications, the brothers Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia. In the early 1960s, these amateurs and tinkerers of genius successfully pick up signals from the first top secret Russian and US space missions. Back on this extraordinary adventure.

Debate with :

• Jacques Barbéri, author of the book "Les années Spoutnik"
• Hervé Moulin, History consultant