An actress and a director will remain twelve days aboard the international spatial station to turn sequences with a feature film. Moscow took a speed a competing American project.
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The take-off took place, as expected and despite a strong wind, at 1 pm 55, Baikonour time, in the sky of a sparkling blue Kazakhstan. “A historic moment”, congratulated Russian television, after a long countdown launched from the cosmodrome that gave the thrill of a first step on the moon at the moment.
For the first time in the history of the spatial conquest, Tuesday, October 5, a film team has been sent in the space to turn the sequences of a feature film. Actress Iulia Peressild, known for its roles in patriotic films, and director Klim Chipenko, who will handle the camera, makeup and lighting, have planned to stay twelve days in the unique space of the Russian segment of the resort International Space (ISS). They will be accompanied by a professional cosmonaut, Anton Chkaplerov.
The final work, Vyzov (“The Challenge”), will stage a doctor whose mission is to save a cosmonaut. The actress and the director, respectively 37 years and 38 years old, trained for four months, just like their liners, during a very staging preparation which took up race against the watch.
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Since the launch of the project, its promoters do not hide their desire to take a similar American initiative. The Russian Roscosmos agency suddenly revealed its ambitions in 2020, after the announcement of a filming project aboard the ISS with American actor Tom Cruise.
For the space agency, the main producer of this movie in the guarded budget, the feature film must restore a tarnished blazon by the corruption scandals, the serial breakdowns and the loss of the lucrative monopoly of the flights inhabited towards the ISS, with the entry along the Spacex company from ELON MUSK. If the agency multiplies grandiose ads, like the development of a specifically Russian spatial station, it does it most often without disclosing specific schedule or plans.
The project also sparked controversy in the Russian scientific community. The Director of the Agency’s inhabited flight program, Sergei Krikalev, was even fought this summer for saying that the money would have been better invested in spatial research and innovation.
Moment of communion
Asked about France Inter, the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet also expressed his skepticism, noting that we could do so realistic in the studio. It is, however, under its command that the Russian mission will take place, Thomas Pesquet having taken for the first time his duties as Captain de l’ISS, on October 4, for a period of thirteen days.
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