The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition in missile technology, the confrontation of superpowers - the USSR and the USA. In the first group of astronauts were selected from three thousand fighter pilots across the country. In twenty of the legendary got the best of the best. Which of them will fly first, no one knew. In this way, had to contend not only with the pull of the earth ...
Elenco: Yaroslav Zhalnin , Mikhail Filippov , Vladimir Steklov , Olga Ivanova , Sergei Laktuynkin , Inga Strelkova-Oboldina , Sergey Kalashnikov , Danila Bukrin , Vladimir Chuprikov , Viktor Proskurin , Nadezhda Markina , Vadim Michman , Sergey Tezov , Anatoliy Otradnov , Evgeniy Tkachuk , Dmitry Tikhonov , Olga Yakovtseva , John Bakhanbaev , Valery Afanasiev , Maksim Saprykin , Khristopher Yakovtsev , Lev Yakovtsev , Aleksandr Pal , Darya Melnikova .