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 ...
Ярослав Жалнин
as Yuri Gagarin
Михаил Филиппов
as Sergey Korolev
Владимир Стеклов
as Nikolai Kamanin
Ольга Иванова
as Valentina Ivanova
Sergei Laktuynkin
as Valeriy Bykovsky
Инга Оболдина
as Ada Kotovskaya
Сергей Калашников
as Pavel Popovich
Danila Bukrin
as Boriska
Владимир Чуприков
as Nikita Khrushchev
Виктор Проскурин
as Father
Надежда Маркина
as Gagarin's mother, Anna Timofeevna Gagarina
Vadim Michman
as Herman Titov
