Pervye na Lune (2005)

Director:

Aleksei Fedorchenko

Writers:

Aleksandr Gonorovsky (screenplay)
Ramil Yamaleyev (sceenplay)

Release Date:

29 September 2005 (Russia)

Genre:

Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

We are the first. USSR.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Mockumentary | Moon | Semi Documentary | Satire | Space

Awards:

6 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Aleksei Anisimov	...	Operator of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs
Viktoriya Ilyinskaya	...	Nadezhda Svetlaya
Viktor Kotov	...	Mikhail Roshchin
Andrei Osipov	...	Fyodor Suprun
Anatoli Otradnov	...	Khanif Fattakhov in old age
Igor Sannikov	...	Circus artiste
Aleksei Slavnin	...	Khanif Fattakhov in young age
Boris Vlasov	...	Ivan Kharlamov

Also Known As:

Первые на Луне (Russia)
First on the Moon (Canada: English title)

Runtime:

Argentina:72 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | Russia:75 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Spanish | Russian

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Chelyabinsk, Russia

Company:

Kinokompaniya Strana

Impresive - but more sci-fi then fantasy

A very nice movie, much better then what I expected. The story is really enjoyable, being a merger of the 'pulp science fictionish' feel of the first half of the 20th century space exploration with documentary about the iron reality of the early Soviet communist era.

This 'mock documentary' is well done, but is somewhat 'unfinished' - not yet ready for release. Quite a few questions remain completely unanswered - and although it adds to the mystery, I think I'd appreciate it more if the documentary would at least comment on itself - why it didn't answer all the questions.

The movie reminds me of Japanese anime 'The Wings of Honneamise' - so if you liked one, do see the other.