The First on the Moon

"Everything that happened was captured on film," A Russian archivist says. "That means it happened." What follows is a varied collage of archival footage from the 1930s and surveillance tapes from the secret service, leading to an occasionally hilarious "reconstruction" of a secret experiment with a manned space rocket. The footage stirs up memories of those exiting times for swimming champion Khanif Fattakhov, who nowadays builds moving insects for a museum. He used to be a member of the pioneer team that consisted of a test pilot, sports champions and a "living cannonball" from a circus. Gradually, the question forces itself upon the viewer as to whether what he is watching is true.