Think Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first on the moon? Well, think again. As Alexei Fedorchenko's unsettling debut film reveals, a Soviet cosmopilot named Ivan Kharlamov actually went there and back in 1938, piloting his experimental and highly secretive craft back to Chile before undertaking an arduous journey across the Pacific, through China and Mongolia, and finally into Mother Russia itself. First on the Moon is a touching expression of an unfettered utopian spirit, a sense of the limitless possibilities of human ingenuity and imagination that characterized many people's vision of the Soviet experiment before its grim realities settled in.