Pervye na Lune (2005)

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... See full synopsis »

Director:

Aleksey Fedorchenko

Writers:

Aleksandr Gonorovskiy (screenplay), Ramil Yamaleyev (screenplay)

Stars:

Aleksey Anisimov, Viktoriya Ilyinskaya, Viktor Kotov

9 wins & 10 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Aleksey Anisimov	...	Operator of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs
Viktoriya Ilyinskaya	...	Nadezhda Svetlaya
Viktor Kotov	...	Mikhail Roshchin
Andrey Osipov	...	Fyodor Suprun
Anatoliy Otradnov	...	Khanif Fattakhov in old age
Sergey Paramonov	...	Kiryanov
Igor Sannikov	...	Circus artiste
Aleksei Slavnin	...	Khanif Fattakhov in young age
Boris Vlasov	...	Ivan Kharlamov

Storyline

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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Plot Keywords:

outer space | rocket | chile | fake documentary | satire | 

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Taglines:

We are the first. USSR.

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Genres:

Mystery | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Russia]

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian Spanish

Release Date:

29 September 2005 (Russia)

Also Known As:

First on the Moon

Filming Locations:

Chelyabinsk, Russia

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Kinokompaniya Strana,Sverdlovskaya Kinostudiya

Technical Specs

Runtime:

72 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Black and White Color

User Reviews

Somewhat dull "mockumentary" on the Soviet Space Plan

This "mockumentary" mixes facts and fantasy, vintage footage, and fake footage, a mix of the the vintage and the new, in showing the successes and failures, the injustices and contradictions in Stalinist Russia, using its space program as the basis.

The film begins in the spring of 1938, in the mountains of northern Chile, where a flying object fell, in flames, later referred to as the Chilean Sphere". This episode is composed of clearly recently reconstructed scenes. So, an investigation of the episode by a filming team, comes upon an important discovery. This is a secret space program developed in the Soviet Union before World War II. Scientists and military authorities, the film would have you believe, had developed a spaceship 23 years before Yuri Gagarin ever went to space.

The amusing elements of fiction and true statements of the Stalin era the interesting features of this film, which lack continuity, not always easy to follow. I think it was intended for the intellectuals of the former Soviet Republics, particularly Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Ucraine. Its appeal, even in the festival circuit, is very limited.

Lacking cohesion, and depending on the non-stop loud Russian-language commentary to follow the film, it is not comprehensible to the non-Russian speaker, or a non-ex Soviet citizen in one screening. And who'd want to sit through another screening. Though the idea sounds good, it will really be quite boring to most everyone.