“The Taming of Fire” is a Soviet feature film of 1972, based on the biography of the missile designer S. P. Korolev and other designers of aviation and missile technology.
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| Genre | Drama |
| Producer | Daniil Khrabrovitsky |
| Author script | Daniil Khrabrovitsky |
| In the main cast | Kirill Lavrov Igor Gorbachev Andrey Popov Igor Vladimirov Innokenti Smoktunovsky Zinovy Gerdt Peter Shelohonov |
| Operator | Sergey Vronsky |
| Composer | Andrey Petrov |
| Film company | Film Studio "Mosfilm" . Creative Association "Comrade" |
| Duration | 158 min. |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1972 |
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In 1974 he was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasilyev brothers .
Short Description
The events of the film describe the history of space exploration in the USSR from the 1920s to the 1960s. The picture begins with the first trial launches of improvised rockets ( GIRD ) and ends with the flight of the first man into space .
In the film "The Taming of Fire" for the first time, the curtain of secrecy over the rocket and space industry of the USSR was slightly opened. Under the fictitious names of the heroes of the film, the secret names of the designers of rockets and rocket technology were hidden at that time .
Story
1930 The young Andrei Bashkirtsev, who just graduated from high school, travels to Moscow with drawings of an independently constructed airplane. Illiterate drawings are rejected, but Bashkirs do not leave their dream - to build an airplane with a jet engine. But life disposes differently, and Bashkirtsev becomes the first person in the Soviet rocket science.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Kirill Lavrov | General Designer of the USSR Rocket and Space Technology, Chief Designer of the OKB-1 (prototype - S. P. Korolev ) Andrew Ilyich Bashkirtsev |
| Ada Rogovtseva | Natalia Bashkirtseva |
| Igor Gorbachev | Deputy Chief Designer of the OKB-1 Evgeny Ognev |
| Andrey Popov | representative of the Central Committee of the CPSU (prototype - DF Ustinov ) Nikolai Ivanovich Logunov |
| Igor Vladimirov | Chairman of the State Commission (prototype - Marshal of Artillery M. I. Nedelin ) Marshal of Artillery Anatoly G. Golovin |
| Innokenti Smoktunovsky | K. E. Tsiolkovsky |
| Vsevolod Safonov | Leonid Sretensky |
| Zinovy Gerdt | lecturer Artur Matveyevich Kartashov |
| Svetlana Korkoshko | Leading Designer OKB-1 Zoya Konstantinova |
| Yuri Leonidov | Morozov |
| Peter Shelohonov | leading designer OKB-1 Mikhail Karelin |
| Andro Kobaladze | I. V. Stalin |
| Galix Kolchitsky | I.V. Kurchatov |
| Vera Kuznetsova | mother Bashkirtseva |
| Evgeny Matveev | the factory director |
| Vadim Spiridonov | commander of the test battery of rocket artillery, captain I. A. Flerov |
| Evgeny Steblov | brother Andrei Innokenti Bashkirtsev |
| Valentina Khmara | secretary Bashkirtseva |
| Ivan Ryzhov | master Alekseich |
| Nikolay Barmin | aviation general |
| Erwin Knausmüller | general |
| Vladlen Paulus | Assistant Logunova |
| Galina Samokhina | episode |
| Igor Petrovsky | Episode |
| Lavr Lyndin | Episode |
| Vladimir Deyanov | Episode |
| Alexander Smirnov | banquet party ( not in credits ) |
| George Kulikov | Balls ( not in credits ) |
| Anatoly Chelombitko [1] | First Cosmonaut |
| George Shevtsov | episode |
| Nozheri Chonishvili | episode |
| Viktor Petrov | episode |
| Igor Pushkaryov | episode |
Film crew
| Screenwriter and director: | Daniil Khrabrovitsky |
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| Director of the picture: | Victor Cirul |
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| Main operator: | Sergey Vronsky |
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| Production Designer: | Yuri Kladienko |
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| Installation: | M. Timofeeva |
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| Composer | Andrey Petrov |
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| Editor | N. Glagoleva |
| Costumes | Natalya Firsova |
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| Conductor | Emin Khachaturian |
| Music editor | Raisa Lukina |
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( B. Ye. Chertok [2] was also the consultant of the film). |
Technical Data
- Color: color, widescreen
- Sound:
- Duration: 158 minutes
- Premiere: April 12, 1972.
Types of movie characters and criticism
In the credits, the creators claim that this film is artistic, and its characters and current events are an abstract artistic fiction. D. Ya. Khrabrovitsky in his interviews in response to questions about the prototypes of the main character of the film indicated that in the Bashkirtsev figure he wanted to create some collective image of the designer of rocket and aircraft equipment; other directors and researchers in the history of space exploration also point to this [3] [4] .
Boris Chertok was dissatisfied with the film for the idealization of the heroes and excessive pathos , although not all of Korolev’s colleagues shared this opinion. In addition, Chertok considered the biography of Korolev, as an explicit prototype of the main character, excessively distorted to the detriment of the image of Bashkirtsev, even taking into account the abstract nature of the film [5] .
Awards
- 1972 - XVIII International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary ( Czechoslovakia ): Crystal Globe prize
- 1972 - VIII International Technical Film Competition at the UNIATEC Congress in Berlin ( GDR ): Special Honorary Diploma
- 1972 - Czech Drama Artists Union Prize: Daniel Khrabrovitsky for an idea, script and direction
- 1973 - VI ICF in Almaty : First Prize to actor Kirill Lavrov for outstanding leading role
- 1974 - State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasilyev Brothers : actor Kirill Lavrov
Notes
- ↑ A scientist from the Academy named after Mozhaisky became Gagarin for a while
- ↑ Rockets and People , ch. "New Ideas and Prologue to Nuclear Strategy", Boris Chertok
- ↑ http://news.tvs1.ru/tv_cinema/Neizvestnyi-Korolev/?date=2007-10-04 Archival copy of February 22, 2014 on the “Unknown Korolev” Wayback Machine
- ↑ Yaroslav Golovanov. Notes. Book 83
- Л Moon Race, Chapter 20 Archived March 15, 2008. Boris Chertok
Links
- Taming of the fire . online cinema . Cinema Concern "Mosfilm". The appeal date is April 28, 2019.
- Daniel Yakovlevich Hrabrovitsky. Taming of the fire . - screenplay. The appeal date is April 28, 2019.