In Russia, the movie was made about Gagarin

April 12, 1961 simple Russian guy has changed the course of history, breaking the force of gravity. Yuri Gagarin, a living legend, a symbol of Russia, its pride and glory. He became the hero of the Soviet Union, B27 years, and 34 died during the test, the new aircraft. In the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the first space flight producer Oleg Kapanets and director Paul Parkhomenko removed from his own script of the film brilliant and complex fate of the first cosmonaut. The preliminary budget the film was $ 10 million is one of the rare cases of private-public forms of film financing: 40% of the budget picture is received from the Fund under the Cinema of social projects and the remainder of the budget assumed the company "Russian Technologies", "Ingosstrakh" and one of the largest Russian banks. Actor for the lead role looking for a long time, even announced a contest on the Internet. People from all over the country sent their photos and videos in the hope that they will drop out after try on the role of Gagarin. But in the end the main role has been selected professional actor Jaroslav Zhalnin. Born in Nizhny Tagil, 25-year-old graduate of the Institute of Cinematography already has a track record of 19 paintings. Through the prism of the fate of the world's first flying unit, the picture shows one of the most significant segments of the country's history. Hruschovskaya thaw and hope for a better life, incredible discoveries in science, space exploration and the "Golden Palm" at the Cannes Film Festival. The first reformer of the USSR in the film performs actor Vladimir Chuprikov. Also involved in the film Vladimir Steklov, and Mikhail Filippov. Cinematic cosmodrome "Baikonur" located under Theodosius. There for the shortest time was built scenery, recreating the exact barrel rocket to the drawings, preserved in the museum space. Construction of scenery creators cost of $ 1 million is now going on in Moscow shooting pavilions. The authors have not yet had time to get a distributor - why rush. Painting serious and requires an integrated approach to promotion. Make large-scale history of the miniseries authors do not plan to. However, in the presence of interesting proposals from the heads of television channels, it is possible to extend the script, at the expense of interesting stories that are not included in the primary film script.