First on the Moon (2005)

Original title

Первые на Луне

Directed by

Aleksei Fedorchenko

Genre

science fiction film, pseudo-documentary

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

12+

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictional documentary reveals that the Soviet Union secretly landed cosmonauts on the moon in the 1930s. It pieces together old footage and interviews to tell this alternate history story.

mockumentaryretrospeculativeearnestlow-keyquirkynostalgicslow-paced

What happens

First on the Moon (Russian: Первые на Луне, romanized: Pervye na Lune) is a 2005 Russian mockumentary science fiction film about a fictional 1930s Soviet landing on the Moon. The film, which went on to win many awards, was the debut of the director Aleksei Fedorchenko. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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