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First on the Moon

First on the Moon

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 29, 2005

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Mystery, Science Fiction

User Score

53%

Original Title

Первые на Луне

Production Companies

Kinokompaniya Strana, 29th February Film Company, Sverdlovsk Film Studio

Director

Aleksey Fedorchenko

Budget

$1,000,000

Description

In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a sensational discovery. It appeared that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin's flight! "The First on the Moon" tells about everyday life, heroic deeds and tragedy of the first group of the Soviet cosmonauts. It is the first Russian film shot in a very rare genre 'mockumentary' or 'documentary fiction'.