Aleksey FEDORCHENKO
Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО
Alekseï FEDORTCHENKO
Russia, 2005, 75mn 
fiction
Pervye na Lune
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Первые на Лунe

 

 First on the Moon

 Les Premiers sur la lune

 
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)
Companies : 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 , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2005
Best Set Decoration Valery LUKINOV , Nikolay PAVLOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2005
Best first film Award "White Elephant", 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
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 or events :
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2017
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2015
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2013
- 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
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", 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
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2005
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2005
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2005