Taming of the Fire
(1972)
★ 7.2 IMDb · 406 votes
Year: 1972
Runtime: 166 min
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Даниил Храбровицкий
Cast: Кирилл Лавров, Ада Роговцева, Игорь Горбачёв, Андрей Попов, Игорь Владимиров
Plot
About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.
1930 year. Young Andrei Bashkirtsev, just graduated from school, goes to Moscow with drawings of a self-constructed airplane. Illiterate drawings are rejected, but Bashkirtsev does not abandon his dream - to build a jet-engine aircraft. But life disposes differently, and Bashkirtsev becomes the first person in Soviet rocket engineering.