The Age of Pioneers was directed by Dmitry Kiselyov and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Yevgeny Mironov, the latter also starred in the leading role.

The Kosmos 57 test vehicle, representing the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, breaks up in flight two weeks before the planned launch and Soviet engineers cannot identify the causes of the explosion and sudden loss of communication.

It is initially successful and the country celebrates, but Alexei's suit over-inflates, rendering him clumsy and unable to enter the airlock.

Alexei defies standing procedure and enters the airlock head first but the outer hatch fails to fully close automatically.

He semi deflates his suit and turns within the airlock in order to close the hatch but, as a result, his oxygen runs out and he passes out.

Ground control states that the system detected a minor leak and began pumping pure oxygen in response.

The oxygen causes Alexei to hallucinate about his times as a young boy, running in a field, searching for a bird nest.

The cosmonauts awake to find that Cycle 4 failed to run on schedule and ground control conclude that the spin of the craft may be to blame.

[8] Two-thirds of the film were directed by Yuri Bykov, but he was fired from the project by producers Timur Bekmambetov and Yevgeny Mironov.

[6] However, movie's second weekend drop was very small – less than 15%, as it grossed additional RUB 124 million due to good word of mouth.