Road to the Stars
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This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1957-11-09
Runtime: 49 mins
Director: Pavel Klushantsev
Writer: Vasiliy Solovyov, Boris Lyapunov
Spoken language: Pусский
Genres: Documentary, Science Fiction
Original title: Road to the Stars
Production Companies: Leningrad Popular Science Film Studio
Production Countries: Soviet Union
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