12 aprelya 1961 goda. 24 chasa (2011)

This film is about 24 hours that changed the world. Hour after hour, step by step, we will examine the turning day in history - the day of the first man flight into space. Using rare newsreel shots, eyewitness accounts, comments of historians. Perhaps such a detailed investigation of one day will allow to find answers to some historical issues, understand the courage of the people who carried out this historic flight. You will learn about the risks and possible failures of the flight. When making the film were used rare archival materials: a transcript of the negotiations of the first flight, the memories of participants of events, comments by Yuri Gagarin and S. Korolev.