USSR - France Eight Days Above the Planet

The film tells about the first flight of a French citizen into Space as part of the Soviet-French space expedition that visited the Salyut-7 orbital station. First part. Summer, Moscow, Vasilievsky Spusk, buses in the parking lot. Kremlin wall, St. Basil's Cathedral (filmed from the side of the hotel "Russia"). Buildings of the Government of the Russian Federation, CMEA, Borodinsky Bridge. Art students in the open air draw a church. New Arbat. Visitors at the tables of a street cafe. Paris. Eiffel Tower. The movement of transport along the streets of the city. A woman arranges flowers for sale at a kiosk on the street. Trading from stalls on one of the streets. The artist paints a picture on the street by the river, a panorama of Notre Dame Cathedral. Flight control center. The image on the screen, those present in the hall, applauded. The joint crew was announced (on June 24, 1982, the USSR-France international crew started from the Baikonur cosmodrome). Flags of the USSR and France. Start of the spaceship. Winter, Star City, baskets of flowers at the monument to Yuri Gagarin, residential buildings in the background. Preparation of astronauts for flight. Three astronauts enter the spaceship compartment. French cosmonauts-explorers Jean-Loup Chretien and his backup Patrick Baudry in the compartment of the ship in the hangar. Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Vladimir Dzhanibekov watches the training of his French comrades. Overload test. The commander of the spacecraft V. Dzhanibekov in training, doctors are monitoring changes in the astronaut's body during the tests. French scientists and specialists at a meeting with Soviet colleagues in Star City. Family members of Soviet and French cosmonauts skiing on the territory of the Star City, V. Dzhanibekov takes them on a movie camera. Index "Baikonur". The main composition of the joint crew is the commander of the spacecraft, the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR V.A. Dzhanibekov, the flight engineer, the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, A.S. Ivanchenkov, the cosmonaut-researcher, Lieutenant Colonel of the French Air Force, Jean-Loup Chretien, and the understudies, the commander of the spacecraft, the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, L.D. Kizim , flight engineer VA Solovyov and cosmonaut-researcher Major of the French Air Force Patrick Baudry answer questions at the conference. Rocket at the cosmodrome. Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR A.A. Leonov demonstrates to his French comrades a rocket ready for flight. Cosmonauts V. Dzhanibekov, Jean-Loup Chretien and A. Ivanchenkov sign on the board before the flight. Astronauts in spacesuits go to the bus, they are accompanied by men in white coats. Photojournalists are taking pictures of the astronauts. The astronauts get on the bus. The astronauts get off the bus, go to the spacecraft. The film uses newsreel footage: German soldiers are walking across Paris (1940), German planes are bombing cities in the USSR (1941), tanks are driving across a snow-covered field [1941], Katyushas are firing [1943], pilots of the Normandy squadron are Neman "talk with the Soviet military, board the planes, the planes take off [1943], the celebration of the liberation of Paris from the Nazi troops, General de Gaulle with the soybeans goes to the Arc de Triomphe, the Parisians greet the general (1944), the Victory parade on Red Square in Moscow , Soviet soldiers throw fascist banners at the foot of the Mausoleum (June 24, 1945), the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin greets the demonstrators from the rostrum of the Mausoleum on Red Square (1961). The second part of. Summer, panorama across the steppe in the Baikonur region. Evening, the spaceship takes off, flies. Three astronauts in the spaceship compartment. Orbital station "Salyut-7" in Space. V. Dzhanibekov, Jean-Loup Chretien and A. Ivanchenkov talk at a special camera standing on the table. Experiment "Pyramig": a special camera captures weak radiation and amplifies them 10,000 times. Astronauts at the orbital station in Space are installing a special camera that will catch the rays of distant Galaxies. Medical examination of astronauts on Earth. Experiment "Echography". Scientists monitor instruments that record changes in the astronaut's body when the load increases. Equipment for space materials science at the orbital station. Experiments "Magma", "Kolibrovka". Meeting of astronauts on Earth. Those who meet them applaud, wash the astronauts with champagne. Correspondents are interviewing astronauts. V. Dzhanibekov talking on a portable phone. Photojournalists are taking pictures. The cosmonauts are painting with chalk on the wall of the apparatus in which the landing took place. Moscow, view of the Kremlin, the Kremlin embankment from the side of the Bolshoy Kamenny bridge, traffic along the embankment. Passers-by on Gorky Street. Passers-by on Novy Arbat. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N.A. Tikhonov takes in the Kremlin cosmonauts - flight participants and flight leaders. NA Tikhonov addresses the participants in the flight on the Soyuz T-6 spacecraft and the Salyut-7 orbital station (sync.). N.A. Tikhonov pins a medal on V. Dzhanibekov's jacket. The audience applauded. N.A. Tikhonov pins a medal on the jacket A. Ivanchenkov, Jean-Loup Chretien. Orders of the Legion of Honor of the Republic of France, intended for A. Ivanchenkov, V. Dzhanibekov, V. Solovyov, V. Lebedev, A. Berezhny and L. Kizim are laid out in boxes on the table. Ambassador of the French Republic Claude Arnault addresses the flight participants (sinhr.), Presents the orders to cosmonauts V. Dzhanibekov and A. Ivanchenkov. The audience applauded. Paris, Arc de Triomphe, traffic. Passers-by, transport on one of the streets in the center of Paris. Sunset, three astronauts go to the spacecraft at the launch site. Space landscapes.

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Scriptwriter I. Nekhamkin