Pavel KLUSHANTSEV
Павел КЛУШАНЦЕВ
Pavel KLOUCHANTSEV
USSR, 1957, 52mn 
Colour, fiction
Road to the Stars / Russian Rocket to the Moon
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Дорога к звездам

 

 La Route vers les étoiles

 Doroga k zvezdam

 
Directed by : Pavel KLUSHANTSEV (Павел КЛУШАНЦЕВ)
Writing credits : Boris LYAPUNOV (Борис ЛЯПУНОВ), Vasili SOLOVYEV (Василий СОЛОВЬЕВ)
 
Cast
Grigori SOLOVYOV (Григорий СОЛОВЬЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail GALPER (Михаил ГАЛЬПЕР)
Production : Lennauchfilm
 

Plot synopsis
The film explains and realistically portras the coming age of space exploration with technical advise from Tikhonravov.
The final section of the film portrays the launching of the first Soviet man into space, the first space station, and the first landing on the moon.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les treize plus grands films soviétiques et russes sur l’espace, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
 
Road to the Stars was one of the most amazing special effects accomplishments in film history. Pavel Klushantsev began working on the colour film in Leningrad in 1954. <…>With technical advise from Tikhonravov (who was secretly developing the Soviet Union's first manned spacecraft at the time), Klushantsev showed tremendous ingenuity in explaining and portraying man's conquest of space. The film was nearing completion when Sputnik 1 was launched. Klushantsev hurriedly filmed a sequence illustrating this feat, and the film was released internationally a month later.
<…> Klushantsev created marvellous special effects, using techniques copied by Stanley Kubrick ten years later for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Indeed, some sequences in 2001 seems a shot-for-shot duplication of Road to the Stars…..
Source : www.astronautix.com

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011