First on the Moon
“We are the first. USSR.”
Synopsis
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'.
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Edited by Lyudmila ZalozhnevaShot by Anatoliy LesnikovScored by Sergei SidelnikovDesigned by Vera Zelinskaya
Box Office
2005 · Box office
Produced on a $1.0M budget
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$1.0M
Also known as
- First on the Moonde
- First on the Moonen
- Premiers sur la Lunefr
- Pervye na Luneru
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19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Boris Vlasov
as Ivan Kharlamov
Viktoriya Ilyinskaya
as Nadezhda Svetlaya
Anatoliy Otradnov
as Khanif Fattakhov in old age
Aleksei Slavnin
as Khanif Fattakhov in young age
Viktor Kotov
as Mikhail Roshchin
Andrey Osipov
as Fyodor Suprun
Aleksey Anisimov
as Operator of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs
Igor Sannikov
as Circus artiste
Nina Kameneva
as Nurse
Polina Litovskaya
as Nurse
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