Gagarin's Smile

Directed by

Arkady Kogan

On April 12, 1961, the whole world learned the name of the man who became the most famous in the history of mankind: Yuri Gagarin. Overnight, he became the idol of millions, and his smile turned into a symbol. However, immediately after Gagarin's flight, a report appeared in Life magazine, in which it was written under the triumphant photo of the First cosmonaut: "This man has everything behind him!". When Gagarin became world famous, he was only 27 years old. The unprecedented fame that befell a simple guy born in a village in the Smolensk region became a much more serious test for Gagarin than his flight around the Earth. People who knew Gagarin well, all as one, repeated: "There was nothing special about him. He was ordinary." But the fact that it was Gagarin who became the First cosmonaut of the planet, if you look into his life, there is an iron logic…