Spectacular biography of Yuri Gagarin - the first man to beat gravity and flew into space. The film, directed by the creator of "Cargo 200".
In the world takes the cold war. Race arms of the USSR and the USA reaches its zenith. Two powers fiercely compete, which of them will be able to be the first to send a man into space. Of the three thousand top Soviet pilots is carefully selected twenty aces brightest skies. One of them is 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin. April 12, 1961 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Single starts spaceship Vostok 1 on board is Gagarin - the first man, who managed to go into space.