The BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer,...
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Series Cast
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Werner Von Braun
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Sergej Koroljov
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Glushko
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Russian Cosmonaut
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John Warnaby | ... |
Mishin
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Chris Robson | ... |
Dieter Huzel
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Nina
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Narrator
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Nedelin
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Derow
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Staver
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Colonel Toftoy
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Gaidukov
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Rupert Wickham | ... |
Debus
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Ingo Gottwald | ... |
Propulsion Engineer
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Castenholz
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Vitalie Ursu | ... |
Yuri Gagarin
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| Oleg Stefan | ... |
Leonov
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| Jeffry Wickham | ... |
Kuznetsov
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Robert Jezek | ... |
Gilruth
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R. V. Jones
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Kammler
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Shepard
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Simon Day | ... |
Kammler
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Khrushchev
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Anthony Edridge | ... |
Kraft
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Isayev
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David Barrass | ... |
Grottrup
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| Emil Mandanac | ... |
Viacheslav Lapo
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Radu Bânzaru | ... |
Russian major
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Alex Humes | ... |
Titov
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Marius Calugarita | ... |
Komarov
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Cristian Motiu |
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Benjamin Kolot | ... |
Cooper
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| Oliver de la Fosse | ... |
Staver's Lieutenant
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Kremlin Official
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Mihai Dinvale | ... |
German Scientist
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Von Braun's Neighbor
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Ksnenia Korolev
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Bryan Jardine | ... |
Pentagon Official
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Production Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- First Channel (in association with)
- National Geographic (in association with)
- NDR International (in association with)
- Mediapro Studios (in association with)
Distributors
- First Channel (2006) (Russia) (tv)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (2005) (United Kingdom) (tv)
- NHK Enterprises (2006) (Japan) (DVD)
- NHK (2006) (Japan) (tv)
- Polyband (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
Special Effects
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Storyline
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The BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart, as their rivalry intensifies and the pressure to be the first builds. Written by badcommand |
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| Budget | EUR2,000,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | According to Deborah Cadbury in her book Space Race, just a few days before three months of filming was to begin in Romania a truck containing all the props for filming was stolen in ilford, England. Among the props inside the truck were countless Nazi Uniforms, period Soviet and NASA space suits, a replica of the first Russian satellite and a life size V-2 rocket that when assembled was three stories high. See more » |
| Goofs | The Jupiter-C Redstone boosters shown all carry the production code "UE", which was only used for the extended Redstone (as part of the "Juno I" rocket) that carried Explorer 1 aloft. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Carrying the Liar (2007). See more » |
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Sergei Korolev:
Without a rocket as powerful as the Saturn, we will *lose* See more » |