Pervye na Lune (2005) on Netflix
A fiery object falls in northern Chile in 1938. Investigators trace it to a secret 1930s Soviet space program and the cosmonaut candidates trained for a lunar flight, including Ivan Kharlamov.
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Plot summary
Around 2000 a film crew investigating a classified document digs into a story hidden since before the Second World War. In 1938 a burning object came down in the mountains of northern Chile and was later named the Chilean Sphere. The crew's inquiry turns up the records of a secret Soviet space program: in the 1930s the USSR built a rocket and worked toward a crewed flight to the Moon and back. A handful of candidates are chosen and trained for the mission, among them Captain Ivan Kharlamov, Nadezhda Svetlaya, Mikhail Roshchin and Khanif Fattakhov, while Fyodor Suprun serves as Chief Constructor.
Cast
- Aleksey Anisimovas Operator of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs
- Viktoriya Ilyinskayaas Nadezhda Svetlaya
- Viktor Kotovas Mikhail Roshchin
- Igor Sannikovas Circus artiste
- Sergey Yarmolyuk
- Maksim Afanasev
- Anatoliy Otradnovas Khanif Fattakhov in old age
- Aleksei Slavninas Khanif Fattakhov in young age
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pervye na Lune (2005)
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- When parts of the plot leaked out before release, several Russian newspapers took Aleksei Fedorchenko's film for a documentary about a real 1938 Soviet Moon landing and called it the Santiago Meteorite; it is in fact fiction.
- The actors worked without stunt doubles and were really spun in a centrifuge for the cosmonaut-training scenes, even though that training is difficult even for professionals.
- The cosmonaut training scenes were filmed in Chelyabinsk at the Institute of Aviation, which holds equipment from Star City that even Yuri Gagarin used for training.
- First on the Moon won the 2005 Venice Film Festival award for a documentary; Julia Vassilieva credits cinematographer Anatoliy Lesnikov and set designer Nikolai Pavlov with a form that mimicked the documentary mode so successfully.
