俄罗斯电影明星阿里克谢·马卡罗夫在《倒计时》中扮演男主角——俄罗斯联邦安全局少校斯莫林。《倒计时》讲述斯莫林被恐怖分子俘获的故事，他在西方记者(由英国女演员路易丝·隆巴德扮演)的帮助下逃出敌人的巢穴。恐怖分子对斯莫林的逃走非常愤怒，于是劫持了一个马戏团，斯莫林的女儿和她的同学正好要去那个马戏团看表演。

在这起事件中，恐怖分子绑架了800多名观众。在斯莫林的带领下，联邦安全局的特种部队对恐怖分子发起进攻，打死多名恐怖分子，没有一名人质伤亡。在影片高潮部分，接受恐怖头子指挥的几名顽固匪徒逃出重围，窃取了大量钚，企图在一架飞往罗马参加北约领导人会议的飞机上将它们引爆。经过殊死搏斗，斯莫林消灭了这帮恐怖分子，拯救了整个世界。

观众把电影中的联邦安全局成员都看作是英雄，评论家认为，这是普京总统所倡导的文化改革的一种迹象。普京已提出了加强俄罗斯人的爱国精神。

In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a sensational discovery. It appeared that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin's flight! "The First on the Moon" tells about everyday life, heroic deeds and tragedy of the first group of the Soviet cosmonauts. It is the first Russian film shot in a very rare genre 'mockumentary' or 'documentary fiction'.