First on the Moon

First on the Moon (Russian: Первые на Луне, Pervye na Lune) is a 2005 Russian mockumentary about a 1930s Soviet landing on the Moon. The film, which went on to win many awards, was the debut of the director Aleksey Fedorchenko. The film is not related to the actual Soviet Moonshot program. A group of journalists are investigating a highly secret document when they uncover a sensational story: that even before the Second World War, in 1938, the first rocket was made in the USSR and Soviet scientists were planning to send an orbiter to the moon and back. The evidence is convincing; it is clear that in this case, Soviet cosmonauts were first. The film's story stretches across a broad swath of time (from the Middle Ages to the modern day)...