First on the Moon

[rich]

I saw this y'day at the Walter Reade Theater in NYC--very funny at times
i'd recommend a viewing if u get the chance

pigs fly
rich

'Think it was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin? Well, think again, because as
Alexei Fedorchenko's unsettling new 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 which he undertook an
arduous journey across the Pacific, through China and Mongolia and finally
into Mother Russia itself. Beyond being a kind of record of a sort of
historical event, Fedorchenko's film 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.'


 Alexei Fedorchenko was born in Russia in 1966. He studied economics before
attending the Russian Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) for scriptwriting.
At Sverdlovsk Studios he directed documentaries, including David and
Children of the White Grave. The First on the Moon is his feature film
debut.
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