Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

mishenko323 This film was definitely a pride of the Soviet film industry just a few decades ago. It is still quite an interesting 3-hour movie to watch even today, when masses of viewers are spoiled with crazy special effects. Space wars are shown from the Russian side in this epic film. The director's job is impressive and cinematography too. The film is also interesting because it includes rare black and white documentaries of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, and several shots showing rockets taking off from the Baykonur Kosmodrome in Kazakhstan (at that time it was part of the Soviet Union). Famous Russian actors, such as Lavrov and Smoktunovsky did a good job.

Alex This movie is loosely based on biography of one of the fathers of Soviet cosmonautics - S.P.Korolev. Though definitely the heroic deeds of army of Soviet engineers worth all kind of awards, but this movie leaves me disappointed.This film is outdated today and looks more like propaganda movie, especially at the end - Lenin, communist party, revolutionary song in at the party in Kremlin.Name Bashkirtsev is used here not because S.P.Korolev was a top secret engineer, but because some episodes of the movie have nothing to do with S.P.Korolev. Before WWII he was in prison, in GULAG camp, then in sharashka - a secret research center under supervision of NKVD. Anyone interested in real facts of Korolev would read Wikipedia, and would not not watch this movie.Next is the main idea that is driving Bashkirtsev: flying into space to Mars and to Moon. This movie never says that the main goal of Korolev research center was to create an intercontinental ballistic missile. A space program was just a side project that was used later by Soviet government as another propaganda vehicle. Thsi movie shows as if Bashkirtsev is a lunatic driven by a single idea to launch rockets into space, and military usage of rockets has nothing to do with him or the whole Baikonur launch site. This is again a propaganda cliché.

Nikolay Kramer An epic about Russian rocket scientists and the launches of "Sputnik" and Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space. Soviet secrets are unveiled and many facts are uncovered in this powerful film. The filming locations were top secret in the Soviet Union. Filming was made at the Soviet Space Research Centers near Moscow and at numerous launch sites of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the deserts of Kazakhtan. Actors are playing the top secret characters, who's real names were not mentioned in the film credits and public media. The leading character and other rocket scientists seem like they were well coached by the real space staff.

Vladimir Dmitriev First man in space was Russian... This movie depicts step by step evolution of Soviet space program from military rocket system "Katjusha" till first space ship "Vostok". Head character is based on real person Serguei Korolyov, the father of Soviet space program. Nice subject, nice music...