Take Aim (Russian: Выбор цели, romanized: Vybor Tzeli) is a 1974 two-part Soviet biographical drama film directed by Igor Talankin.

The story begins with the 1945 Meeting at the Elbe between American and Soviet forces and the subsequent Potsdam Conference, where Harry S. Truman reveals that the U.S. now possesses a powerful new weapon and will not concede in the postwar division of Europe.

In 1942, Stalin assembles Soviet scientists at his Kuntsevo Dacha, inspired by a letter from Junior Lieutenant Georgy Flyorov suggesting that the Allies are advancing nuclear research.

Igor Kurchatov is selected to lead the Soviet effort, initiating the USSR’s atomic project amid wartime deprivation.

After several experiments, the special effects coordinator, Samir Jaber - a Syrian citizen who worked for Mosfilm - decided to create the required sequence by trickling a drop of orange-tinted perfume into a watery solution of aniline and filming it close up.