We have selected 49 films, each of which recounts, in its own way, the extraordinary cosmic epic, sometimes imagined, sometimes experienced, by the Soviets, culminating in Yuri Gagarin's first journey into space on 12 April 1961. Of the 49 films, 22 are animated films, whose presence shows, once again, that Soviet animated cinema also contributes to major cinematic trends. Among the fiction films, several have become cult classics, including The Planet of Storms, 1961, by Pavel KLOUCHANTSEV, which more than forty years later inspired several American films, and the silent film Cosmic Flight, 1935, by Vassili JOURAVLIOV, a pioneering film that became popular in the 1960s, notably for illustrating the problems of weightlessness encountered by cosmonauts
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(Григорий КРОМАНОВ)
(Большое космическое путешествие)
Valentin SELIVANOV
(Валентин СЕЛИВАНОВ)
(Эта весёлая планета)
Yuri SAAKOV (Юрий СААКОВ)
Yuri TSVETKOV (Юрий ЦВЕТКОВ)
(Мечте навстречу)
Mikhail KARIUKOV (Михаил КАРЮКОВ)
Otar KOBERIDZE (Отар КОБЕРИДЗЕ)
(Из пушки на Луну и дальше без остановок)
Anatoli REZNIKOV
(Анатолий РЕЗНИКОВ)
(Упущенная галактика)
Inna PSHENICHNAYA (Инна ПШЕНИЧНАЯ)
Anatoli SOLIN (Анатолий СОЛИН)
(Из дневников Ийона Тихого. Путешествие на Интеропию)
Gennadi TISHCHENKO
(Геннадий ТИЩЕНКО)
(Мурзилка на спутнике)
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(Межпланетная революция)
Zenon KOMISSARENKO (Зенон КОМИССАРЕНКО)
Yuri MERKULOV (Юрий МЕРКУЛОВ)
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