A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.

East Side Story

Never before has an astronaut spoken up - about the faults and tragedies of his life, about the achievements and experiences of man in space: Story Musgrave invites us on an emotional journey around a human being exiled between Earth and weightlessness. Astronaut of six space flights, poet, surgeon, chemist, computer specialist and father of six children. Did this ultimately uprooted man find his place here on Earth? He is a metaphor for search and evolution, for love and loneliness.

Story

An orphan child that dreams about the Cosmos, a doctor who donates blood for an experiment on interplanetary flights, a scientist who proves that man can fly to Mars: all these are aspects of cosmonaut nr. 66, Valery Polyakov, the man with the longest spaceflight ever. Now he speaks for the very first time about himself and life in space.

Cosmonaut Polyakov

The secret of manned space flight isn't kept by the military - but by the Russian space psychologists. More than 50 astronauts and cosmonauts worldwide have been interviewed for this film in a period of 15 years.