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East German upgrades and enhancements, mind you, courtesy of East Germany's DEFA film institute.
Eolomea finds our favorite iron curtain filmwerkers looking spaceward again: Here our intrepid explorers learn that their spaceships have gone silent, and they want to find out why -- in addition to understanding the meaning of a strange transmission they've received: 'Eolomea.' What follows is an extensive 2001-styled trip to space in search of the answers, intercut with a strange idyll on earth (complete with running in slow motion on the beach), as a woman (the ravishing Cox Habbema) tries to convince one of the DEFA-nauts to sign up for another tour of duty in space.
Unfortunately Eolomea isn't much to look at. The space station is rather cool -- reminiscent of the floating tubes of Mir -- but the spaceship interiors look suspiciously like East German bomb shelters and abandoned warehouses, with industrial shelving full of crap and depressing, faded-blue walls. No wonder this guy doesn't want to go back into space.
