The film tells about the preparations for the space flight of Soviet cosmonauts Alexander Viktorenko and Alexander Alexandrov and Syrian cosmonaut Mohammed Faris.
Portrait of Yuri Gagarin.
Storyboard: members of international crews aboard spacecraft during flights under the Intercosmos program.
Street views of Star City, snow on tree branches.
Syrian cosmonaut Mohammed Faris and his backup during a Russian language lesson.
Backup Munir Habib reads a poem in Russian, Faris continues reading from the next stanza (synchronously), faces of Faris and his backup. M. Habib's family at a tea table in the outskirts of Latakia.
Faces of Habib's relatives.
Faris during a Russian language lesson.
Faris's brother, a mechanic, monitors the operation of factory equipment.
Faris's brother, a taxi driver, is driving a car.
Faris's third brother, an accountant.
View of a part of a Damascus neighborhood (from above).
Street views of Damascus, people and transport on the streets of the city.
Views of new residential neighborhoods.
Panorama of a Damascus suburb (from above).
The spacecraft before launch against the backdrop of the starry sky (combined photography).
Cosmonauts A.S. Viktorenko and Faris during training.
Cosmonauts Viktorenko and Aleksandrov together with their Syrian colleagues at Baikonur near the monument to the Vostok spacecraft.
Khabib talks to cosmonauts Savinykh and Solovyov before training on the simulators.
Khabib and Faris during theoretical classes.
Cosmonauts studying the equipment for remote sensing of the Earth's surface, Aleksandrov's face.
Aleksandrov checks Faris's actions.
View of the dam on the Euphrates (top).
Faris studies the material science equipment for conducting experiments on board the space station, Viktorenko and Aleksandrov help him.
Cosmonauts training on the water, learning to use rescue equipment.
Cosmonauts during training on the simulator and underwater.
Faris and Khabib work out on strength training machines in the gym.
The space crew inspects the tail section of the spacecraft in the hangar.
Panorama of the press conference hall.
Faces of journalists sitting in the hall.
Cosmonaut A.A. Lenov introduces the members of the space crews.
Faces of the members of the main and backup crews - Viktorenko, Aleksandrov, Faris, Solovyov, Savinykh and Khabib.
Soviet and Syrian cosmonauts in the hangar during the inspection of the Mir station.
Faces of the members of the main and backup crews.
The disk of the sun in the sky.
Cosmonautics
Viktorenko Alexander Stepanovich -- pilot-cosmonaut Alexandrov Alexander Pavlovich -- pilot-cosmonaut Savinykh Viktor Petrovich -- pilot-cosmonaut Solovyov Anatoly Yakovlevich -- pilot-cosmonaut Faris Muhammad Ahmed -- Syrian pilot-cosmonaut Habib Munir Habib -- Syrian pilot-cosmonaut
1993
Moscow region Syria Kazakhstan
Winter Summer