Boris GRIGORYEV
Борис ГРИГОРЬЕВ
Boris GRIGORIEV
USSR, 1976, 66mn 
fiction
Tak nachinalas legenda
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Так начиналась легенда

 

 So the Legend Began

 Ainsi commença la légende

 
Directed by : Boris GRIGORYEV (Борис ГРИГОРЬЕВ)
Writing credits : Yuri NAGIBIN (Юрий НАГИБИН)
 
Cast
Oleg ORLOV (Олег ОРЛОВ) ...Yuri Gagarin
Georgi BURKOV (Георгий БУРКОВ) ...Yuri Gagarin's father
Larisa LUZHINA (Лариса ЛУЖИНА) ...Yuri Gagarin's mother
 
Cinematography : Konstantin ARUTYUNOV (Константин АРУТЮНОВ)
Production design : Boris DULENKOV (Борис ДУЛЕНКОВ)
Music : Georgi DMITRIYEV (Георгий ДМИТРИЕВ)
Companies : Gorky Film Studio
Release Date in Russia : 11/04/1977
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Biopic of Yuri Gagarin, the first man who flew around the Earth, from his birth to his dream of flying since he saw combat airplanes over his small village, during the German occupation in WWII.
 

commentaries
Youri Gagarine : le fantôme du cinéma russe ?, Julien MORVAN, Perestroikino, 2021