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Aleksey FEDORCHENKO

Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО

Alekseï FEDORTCHENKO

Russia, 2005, 75 mn

fiction

First on the Moon

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Первые на Лунe

Les Premiers sur la lune

Pervye na Lune

First on the Moon

Directed by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО)

Writing credits : Aleksandr GONOROVSKY (Александр ГОНОРОВСКИЙ), Ramil YAMALEYEV (Рамиль ЯМАЛЕЕВ)

Cast

Viktoria ILINSKAIA (Виктория ИЛЬИНСКАЯ)

Anatoli OTRADNOV (Анатолий ОТРАДНОВ)

Grigori VLASOV (Григорий ВЛАСОВ)

Cinematography : Anatoli LESNIKOV (Анатолий ЛЕСНИКОВ)

Production design : Valery LUKINOV (Валерий ЛУКИНОВ), Nikolay PAVLOV (Николай ПАВЛОВ)

Production : Sverdlovsk Studio

Site : www.1moon.ru

Awards :

Special Prize Festival Kinoblick, Stuttgart (Germany), 2006

Best first film Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2005

Special Jury prize Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2005

Best Screenplay Aleksandr GONOROVSKY , Ramil YAMALEYEV , Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2005

Best Set Decoration Valery LUKINOV , Nikolay PAVLOV , Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2005

Best first film Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2005

Prix du meilleur documentaire au festival de Venise 2005 (bien que le film ne soit pas considéré par son auteur comme un documentaire)
Prix du meilleur premier film et et prix de la Guilde des critiques et historiens du cinéma au festival "Kinotavr", 2005

Plot synopsis

Think it was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin? Well, think again, because as Alexei Fedorchenko's unsettling debut film reveals, a Soviet cosmopilot, Ivan Kharlamov, actually went there and back in 1938, piloting his experimental, and highly secretive craft back to Chile, from where he undertook an arduous journey across the Pacific, through China and Mongolia and finally into Mother Russia itself. First on the Moon is a touching expression of an unfettered utopian spirit - a sense of the limitless possibilities of human ingenuity and imagination - that characterized many people's vision of the Soviet experiment before its grim realities settled in. -
Source :Kent Jones, www.seagullfilms.com

Commentaries and bibliography

Aleksei Fedorchenko: First on the Moon (Pervye na lune); 2005, Oleg KOVALOV, kinokultura.com, 2006

Review Alexander Prokhorov on kinokultura.com
Review by Oleg Kovalov on kinokultura.com

Selected in the following festivals :

- International Documentary Film Festival : Cinéma du réel, Paris (France), 2013

- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw (Poland), 2012

- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2010

- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2010

- Festival Russian kino 'Moscow Premier Screenings', Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Days of Russian cinema in Valence, Valencia (France), 2006

- Festival Kinoblick, Stuttgart (Germany), 2006

- Russian Nights, Los Angeles (USA), 2006

- Festival Kinoblick, Stuttgart (Germany), 2005

- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2005

- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2005

- Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2005

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2005

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2005

- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2005

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