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Gagarin: First in Space (2013) is a Russian historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Pavel Parkhomenko traces how a foundry worker's son from a small town ended up the first human to circle the planet. Yaroslav Zhalnin plays Yuri Gagarin.
Three thousand fighter pilots are narrowed down to twenty candidates, and nobody yet knows which of them gets the seat. The film cuts between the cosmonaut program — centrifuges, isolation chambers, medical drills — and Gagarin's earlier life: the war years, trade school, his first jet flight. Mikhail Filippov appears as rocket chief Sergei Korolev, with Vladimir Steklov alongside.
What lands here is the human cost behind one famous smile: the rivalry inside the chosen twenty and the Cold War pressure of two superpowers each desperate to be first. Stream Gagarin: First in Space (2013) online on iFILM.
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