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FIRST UKRAINIAN SPACEMAN
In the ’90s Ukraine, awkward 13-y.o. Anton dreams of space travel. After finding a rocket-shaped slide in an abandoned Soviet fairground, he teams up with a quirky homeless engineer to build a real rocket. Yet his mother’s wish for him to join the Vienna Boys’ Choir looms over his cosmic ambitions.
Dnipro, Ukraine, 1997. 13-year-old Anton is a gentle, awkward boy with an angelic singing voice and a head full of sci-fi fantasies. While his mother pins all hopes on his musical talent to lift them out of poverty—dreaming of a place for him in the Vienna Boys’ Choir—Anton secretly longs to become a cosmonaut. When he discovers a rocket-shaped slide in an abandoned Soviet amusement park, he hatches a bold plan: turn it into a real spaceship and enter an American rocket-building competition that promises a life-changing prize. With help from his loyal friend Pavlik, fearless gymnast Katya and a mysterious homeless man who once designed rocket engines, Anton transforms the decaying fairground into a launch site. As the town watches with hope and disbelief, Anton faces betrayal, loss and the threat of being pulled back into the life his parents chose for him. But driven by love and a burning desire to prove himself, he is determined to finish his rocket and launch it—no matter the cost.
