The Challenge (2023 movie)
The Challenge (Russian: Вызов) or Doctor's House Call is a 2023 Russian space docudrama movie by Klim Shipenko. The movie is the first time a professional actor has been filmed in space by a professional director, as other films before were filmed and acted in by astronauts/cosmonauts/space tourists (space tourists that were amateur both in film-making and as astronauts) or used footage from automated equipment. Apogee of Fear was written by a professional scriptwriter, and with some graphics assets done by a professional, but had no other filming professionals involved.[2][3][4] and was theatrically released in Russia on 12 April 2023 by Central Partnership.
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| Directed by | Klim Shipenko |
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| Edited by | Tim Pavelko |
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| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
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| A film shot on a space station | |
Time in space | 11 days, 22 hours and 13 minutes (35–40 minutes of production) |
| Missions | Soyuz MS-19/Soyuz MS-18 (Expedition 65) (Equipment launched on Progress MS-17[1] and returned on Soyuz MS-18) |
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Plot
Cosmonaut Ivanov loses consciousness while the spacecraft is in flight. Doctors decide that it will be necessary to perform heart surgery right in zero gravity. Cardiac surgeon Zhenya, who does not have time to raise her three year old daughter, is preparing for the flight.[5]
Cast
- Yulia Peresild as Evgenia 'Zhenya', a heart surgeon, and female cosmonaut
- Vladimir Mashkov as a cardiac surgeon
- Miloš Biković as Vladislav Nikolaev
- Klim Shipenko as a cosmonaut
- Alyona Mordovina as a woman cosmonaut
- Tatyana Dogileva
- Sergey Burunov
- Polina Agureeva
- Oleg Novitsky as Ivanov (the sick astronaut[6])
- Aleksandr Baluev
- Igor Gordin
- Alexey Barabash
Cameos
References
- ↑ "Equipment for shooting 1st movie in space delivered to ISS by Russian cargo spacecraft". 2 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ↑ "Russia to Open New Frontier in Space, Shooting First Full-Length Movie". New York Times. 16 September 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/world/europe/russia-movie-space.html.
- ↑ Susanna Alperina (27 July 2021). "Ernst told the details about the film "Challenge"". Russian newspaper.
- ↑ (in ru) Выбраны 20 претенденток на роль в фильме, который будут снимать на МКС. 9 March 2021. https://www.interfax.ru/russia/755118.
- ↑ "Первые в космосе". Страница проекта на сайте Первого канала.
- ↑ Fictional ill astronaut is Ivanov so Novitsky may be the sick astronaut
- ↑ He paid for the seats of the film crew
