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FIRST ON THE MOON / PERVYE NA LUNE Series: From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema [Aug 11 – 24 2006] Director: Alexei Fedorchenko, Country: Russia, Release: 2005, Runtime: 76 Think it was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin? Well, think again, because as Alexei Fedorchenko’s unsettling new film reveals, a Soviet cosmopilot, Ivan Kharlamov, actually went there and back in 1938, piloting his experimental (and highly secretive) craft back to Chile, from which he undertook an arduous journey across the Pacific, through China and Mongolia and finally into Mother Russia itself. Beyond being a kind of record of a sort of historical event, Fedorchenko’s film is a touching expression of an unfettered utopian spirit — a sense of the limitless possibilities of human ingenuity and imagination — that characterized many people’s vision of the Soviet experiment before its grim realities settled in. A selection of the 2006 New Directors/New Films Festival.

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