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Our Space

Exactly fifty years ago the world has changed. Mad ideas of dreamers and fantasts have come true: the person has come off the Earth and flied away to stars. The Soviet breakthrough into space is one of the main victories of our country. Military triumphs, cultural breakthroughs – hardly these great events have brought the same feeling of joy and unity as Yury Gagarin's flight on April, 12th, 1961. Words ‘Sputnik’, ‘Vostok’, ‘Soyuz’, ‘Mir’ sound equally in all languages, and Gagarin's and Korolyov’s names have been written in mankind history for ever.

In each episode we will talk on events in which intertwined lives of many people, dozens of destinies have forever changed, as well as how ability, endurance, courage of our designers, cosmonauts, engineers have helped to make the impossible possible. Protagonists of the film - Sergey Korolyov, Yury Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexey Leonov, Vladimir Komarov and many others - appear in a chain of strained and highly dramatic stories as persons of outstanding will and strength of mind. They overcome lots of political and personal obstacles, trying not to barter away the human principles. Some of them became a legend during lifetime, about the others viewers learn for the first time.

Documentary cyclus ‘Our space’, the anchorman of which will be actor Vladimir Vdovichenkov, is a chronicle of the most significant stages of space exploration: from the start of the first artificial satellite of the Earth to ten years' continuous stay of different crews on the orbital station ‘Mir’. The epochal moments and little-known pages of history of space researches: the viewers will see unique shots of the documentary chronicle, art reconstruction, as well as interviews with participants and witnesses of the events.

Genre: documentary drama

Number of episodes: 8

Year of Production: 2010