Around the Sun, or the Russian Dream of Space (2017)

Space.

A cluster of stars that form a nebula.

CAPTION: Around the Sun, or the Russian dream of space.

Clock hands with Roman numerals are spinning (side view).

Clock hands with Roman numerals are spinning.

Black and white newsreel.

Hands hold sheets of paper with fantastic creatures.

Black and white animation.

A rocket flies among the stars.

Black and white frame.

A man opens shutters.

Black and white frame.

Planet Earth.

Black and white frame.

People approach a porthole.

Black and white frame.

Planet Earth.

Black and white frame.

People on a spaceship.

Black and white frame.

A man on a spaceship.

Panorama.

Black and white frame.

Starry sky through a telescope lens.

Planet Color.

A man in a black sweater in a room.

CAPTION: Andrey Madekin, artist, art historian.

Poland.

Starry night sky through tree branches.

A round object with drawings and hieroglyphs.

A man in a black sweater in a room.

Poland.

A wooden chandelier in the shape of a planet with meridians and parallels.

Black-and-white newsreel footage.

TV footage against the background of the Spasskaya Tower clock.

CAPTION: October 4, 1957. Black-and-white newsreel footage.

TV footage.

The Spasskaya Tower with its clock against a black background.

Flight of a space object.

Black-and-white animation.

Satellite launch into space.

Black-and-white animation.

Satellite flies near a planet.

Poland.

Black-and-white newspaper article.

Black-and-white animation.

Planet Earth rotates against a background of stars.

A small satellite orbits the Earth.

B/W satellite (animation).

A satellite in section with equipment.

B/W satellite in the sky (animation).

A young man in a room.

CAPTION: Vadim Kaplunov, rocketry design engineer.

Poland.

A rocket launcher.

B/W newsreel.

People near a receiver listening to a signal.

B/W newsreel.

Earth.

A satellite flies by.

The names of the capitals of countries around the world flash.

B/W newsreel.

People recording signals on tape.

Poland.

Television announcers from different countries.

A young man in a room.

Color newsreel.

Men working on drawings.

Color stills from a film.

Two young men launching something resembling a rocket.

A rocket in the sky.

A painting of soldiers on horseback.

A painting of a man in a 19th-century military uniform constructing.

A gray-haired man in a chair in a room.

CAPTION: Viktor Molchanov, writer, art mechanic.

Poland.

An antique wall clock in a room.

Stills from a feature film.

A 19th-century soldier is fighting.

Portrait of a 19th-century officer.

Young man in a room.

Statuette on a table. 19th-century rocket launcher.

Young man in a room.

Drawings of various 19th-century rocket designs.

Gunpowder rockets are flying.

A battle is underway, soldiers are running.

Soldiers are dying from rocket explosions.

Young man in a room. 19th-century world map.

Painting of soldiers riding in carts and hauling cannons.

Rockets are exploding in the night sky.

Painting of a battle.

Soldiers in shelter.

Painting of a portrait of a young officer.

Reconstruction.

Poland.

Soldiers are marching.

One is drinking from a jug.

A gray-haired elderly man is sitting in an armchair in a room with a large book.

Antique equipment.

Poland.

Square.

Stella with an angel.

People in the square (from an aerial view).

Building.

City.

Rocket drawing.

Test rocket.

A cross-section of a rocket.

A room with antique objects and experimental equipment.

A black-and-white portrait of a 19th-century man.

Candles are burning, a crystal is on a tray on a table.

Books, a scroll tied with a ribbon.

Open books.

Glasses.

A man in a black sweater in a room.

A wall in a room with various historical items.

Antique mirror.

Man in a black jacket in a room.

Violin on the wall between two paintings.

Man in a black jacket in a room.

Panorama.

Antique device (departure).

Man in a black jacket in a room.

Black and white stills from the film: airplanes are flying, locomotives are going along huge high-rises.

Black and white stills from the film: cars are driving along huge high-rises.

A gray-haired elderly man is sitting in a chair with a book in his hands.

Antique object.

Various antique things in a room.

Black and white stills from the film: a man in a spacesuit on the Moon lights matches.

Round crystal on the table in the room.

Panorama.

Painting of men in military uniform.

A combat missile is lying on the floor in the room.

Black and white portrait of a man in a 19th-century military uniform.

Panorama.

Engineering structure.

Panorama.

Different types of 19th-century cannons.

Panorama.

Cannon.

Panorama.

Drawing of an engineering structure.

Young man in a room.

Bronze statuette of a man in military uniform.

Young man in a room.

Black and white photo of a gray-haired man in a suit.

ZTM PNR b/w drawing of a man in military uniform PNR b/w drawing of a city street.

A long building, people in carriages.

PNR b/w drawing of a man, a test gun, and a rocket in section, a b/w page from a book.

Color PNR (from above) of buildings of one complex, a bay, a city on the other bank.

PNR painting of men in military naval uniforms and ships on the water.

B/w photo of a man in a 19th-century military uniform PNR b/w drawing of a submarine in section.

Color Sea.

Submarine periscopes submerge.

Submarine underwater.

Blades working.

Periscope target above water.

Ship.

Young man in a room.

Blue submarine test model.

Young man in a room.

Hand turning a lever.

From a rocket under water.

Sea.

Ship.

Rockets fly at the ship and explode it.

Stars in space form a new cluster.

Icon with the faces of saints.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

Panorama of the temple (view from above).

Panorama of nature and the temple.

Panorama of icons in the temple.

Icon (animation): rays on the icon.

Panorama of an icon with the face of a saint.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

B/W photo of an elderly man.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

Book cover.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

Panorama of the planet Earth from space.

The Moon around the Earth.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

B/W still from an old film.

Men in tailcoats and a woman in beautiful clothes.

A clock.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

An antique piece of jewelry.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

B/W stills from an old film.

Women with wreaths on their heads, dressed in white.

B/W stills from an old film.

A woman and a man in white robes.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

B/W stills from an old film.

Moon rocks.

Two men arguing in front of others.

A gray-haired, elderly man sits in a chair with a book in his hands.

A panorama of a black-and-white photo of men.

The color of a rocket.

Men in a metal device.

Fire under a rocket.

A black-and-white photo of concentration camp prisoners working.

A gray-haired, elderly man sits in a chair with a book in his hands.

A rocket, gas coming from a pipe.

The rocket takes off.

Flight.

A black-and-white drawing of a rocket.

A color model of a small airplane.

At a testing ground, people launch a test model.

A young man in a room.

A panorama of a city divided into two banks by a river.

A black-and-white book cover.

Aeronautics.

A young man in a room.

A black-and-white page from a book.

The color of a crystal on a table.

Candles are burning in the panorama.

Pictures of a natural landscape in unusual cosmic settings.

A gray-haired elderly man with a book in his hands sits in a chair in a room.

A b/w photo of a man in a 19th-century suit.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

A panorama of a beautiful pink old building.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

A panorama of an unusually designed chandelier.

Various interesting antique things.

A striking clock.

A painting of angels by the sea.

A painting of a man in a black jacket in a room.

A painting of an elderly man with a beard and mustache looking at the sky.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

A panorama of nature.

Temple.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

A drawing of a man with a beard at a table.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

A panorama of a man in a black jacket in a room.

Planet Earth from space.

A man in a black jacket in a room.

A panorama of a chronicle.

Water.

City buildings and structures.

A room in a prison.

A diagram.

A room in a prison.

A b/w portrait.

Men.

A color chronicle.

A street with wooden houses.

A room in a wooden house.

Various devices are standing there.

B/W newsreel.

Tsiolkovsky with men at the first rocket.

B/W book cover.

Clock on the wall. (Animation).

A hand takes and stacks three rockets on top of each other, merging into one.

Fire under the rocket, and it takes off.

Rocket cutaway.

B/W stills from the film.

Film caption: Five minutes into the flight, 80 km from Earth, Academician Sedykh turned off the explosions, and at that very moment, the astronauts lost weightlessness.

B/W stills from the film.

An astronaut in a spacesuit.

A girl takes off her spacesuit.

B/W photo by Sergei Korolev.

Color reporters, men near the installation with a rocket.

A caravan of ambulances, a fire truck, and a military vehicle drives along the road.

A missile launcher and a rocket.

People on the installation.

A missile launcher.

People servicing a rocket launcher.

Flags of various countries.

Black and white photo of Korolev with people and children.

Color.

Young man in a room.

Black and white photo of Korolev with a team of cosmonauts.

Young man in a room.

Crystal on a table.

A rocket soars into the sky.

Planet Earth from space.

The Moon.

A rocket flies away from planet Earth.