Aleksei GermanCast
Merab Ninidze Chulpan Khamatova Anastasiya Shevelyova Aleksandr Glebov Ruslan Ibragimov Fyodor Lavrov
Credits
Written by: Vladimir Arkusha
Plot
A Soviet doctor, Nikolai Daneliya, is part of the cosmonaut programme in 1961 Kazakhstan, as the launch of Gagarin approaches, and faces a crisis of his own faith and love.
Sinekatalog’s take
A haunting, beautifully shot black-and-white drama of the Soviet space age.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.4 / 10 (968 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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