Gagarine (2020) on Netflix
Youri is sixteen and lives in Cité Gagarine, the estate on the edge of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When demolition plans surface, he, Diana and Houssam resist.
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- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb6.7/103,052 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Plot summary
Youri has spent his whole life in Cité Gagarine, the estate in Ivry-sur-Seine on the southern edge of Paris. He is sixteen, dreams of becoming an astronaut, and thinks of the buildings as his starship. When plans to demolish the estate become known, he joins the resistance, and with Diana and Houssam he does what he can to keep the community in place. The building inspectors come to close the estate, and the three paint over graffiti and change lightbulbs, but cannot stop them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gagarine (2020)
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- Gagarine was shot in the Cité Gagarine housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, south of Paris, right before the estate was demolished.
- The film expands the directors' 2015 short of the same name; they first interviewed residents of Cité Gagarine at the request of architects studying the building's possible demolition, which inspired the fictional story.
