Taming of the Fire (1972)

Original title

Укрощение огня

Directed by

Daniil Khrabrovitsky

Genre

drama film, biographical film, historical film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 38m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictionalized story inspired by the Soviet space program's race to put the first man in space. It follows a chief rocket engineer and his team as they face technical and political challenges to build powerful rockets.

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What happens

Taming of the Fire (Russian: Укрощение огня, romanized: Ukroshcheniye ognya) is a 1972 film, directed by Daniil Khrabrovitsky and starring Kirill Lavrov. The film dramatizes the Soviet viewpoint of the Space Race, and features actual footage of the powerful, three-stage rockets built to launch the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on Vostok 1. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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