Star quality: Russia premieres first feature film shot in space
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- 28 Apr 2023
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Vladimir Putin hails achievement that beat Hollywood project announced by Tom Cruise, Nasa and Elon Musk’s SpaceX
The first feature film shot in space has premiered in Russian cinemas, with Moscow celebrating beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the west. The Challenge is about a surgeon dispatched to the International Space Station to save an injured cosmonaut. Russia sent an actor and a film director for a 12-day stint on the ISS in October 2021 to film scenes onboard the orbiting laboratory.
The Russian crew beat a Hollywood project announced in 2020 by Tom Cruise in collaboration with Nasa and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has lauded the film, saying: “We are the first to have shot a feature film in orbit, aboard a spacecraft. Once again the first.”
The Soviet Union pioneered space travel and the film crew’s mission added to a long list of firsts for Russia’s space industry after several setbacks, including botched launches. In The Challenge a surgeon played by Yulia Peresild, 38, is sent to the ISS to save a cosmonaut injured during a spacewalk. Read More…
