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