Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Yaroslav Zhalnin | ... | Yuri Gagarin |
Mikhail Filippov | ... | Sergey Korolev | |
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Olga Ivanova | ... | Valentina Ivanova |
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Vadim Michman | ... | Gherman Titov |
Vladimir Steklov | ... | Nikolai Kamanin | |
Viktor Proskurin | ... | Father | |
Nadezhda Markina | ... | Mother | |
Daniil Vorobyov | ... | Grigory Nelyubov | |
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Inga Strelkova-Oboldina | ... | Ada Kotovskaya |
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Sergey Tezov | ... | Colonel Karpov |
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Anatoliy Otradnov | ... | Adrian Nikolaev |
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Vladimir Chuprikov | ... | Nikita Khrushchev |
Evgeniy Tkachuk | ... | Lieutenant | |
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Sergey Laktyunkin | ... | Valeriy Bykovsky |
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Anatoliy Gushchin | ... | Alexei Leonov |
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 108 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.
What I like most about this movie is its relative neutrality. Of course, there was that historical, almost 'light the world up' tension between the two superpowers back then, but this one, however, menages to be almost solely Russian. It does not blame either part of the equation. It is Russian because of its characters, who are developed well throughout the movie. What baffles me that, in the same year, Gravity won everything, but this movie wasn't even mentioned. I think, Gravity will soon be forgotten, but this one, about Gagarin, will linger for a long time.