1979 film by Vladimir Menshov

契诃夫短篇小说选》收入作者脍炙人口的佳作，集中体现了作者的艺术风格。 契诃夫的显著特色是他能够从最平常的现象中揭示生活本质。他高度淡化情节，只是截取平凡的日常生活片段，凭借精巧的艺术细节对生活和人物作真实描绘和刻画，从中展现重要的社会现象。但他不陷入日常生活的“泥沼”，恰恰相反，他的深刻的现实主义形象常常升华为富有哲理的象征。在展示人物内心世界方面，契诃夫不重于细致交待人物的心理活动过程，只求从人物的行为举止中看出其内心活动和变化。

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.