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“A touching expression of an unfettered utopian spirit - a sense of the limitless possibilities of human ingenuity and imagination - that characterized many people's vision of the Soviet experiment before its grim realities settled in” (Kent Jones). Fedorchenko's first feature is a crafty mock documentary positing a super secret Soviet space landing that predates the American “giant leap” by thirty years. Mixing real and phony archival footage, and fictitious present-day interviews with one of the figures involved in the project, FIRST ON THE MOON is part intriguing, textured experiment in the ersatz, part spoof of Soviet propaganda films, and part sinister drama of Stalin-era repression. Selected for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2006 New Directors/New Films Festival. “Inventive, slickly made . . . While Western audiences may chuckle at the deftly executed mimicry of Soviet kitsch, viewers from Eastern Europe will feel the darker undertow” (Leslie Felperin, Variety ). - George Kaltsounakis
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