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The primary function movie shot in area premiered in Russian cinemas on Thursday, as Moscow exulted in beating a rival Hollywood challenge amid a confrontation with the West.
“The Problem” is a few surgeon dispatched to the Worldwide House Station (ISS) to avoid wasting an injured cosmonaut. Russia despatched an actress and a movie director for a 12-day stint on the ISS in October 2021 to film scenes aboard the orbiting laboratory.
The Russian crew beat a Hollywood challenge introduced in 2020 by “Mission Impossible” star Tom Cruise along with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Russian President Vladimir Putin has lauded the movie, saying: “We’re the primary to have shot a function movie in orbit, aboard a spacecraft. As soon as once more the primary.”
The Soviet Union pioneered space journey and the movie crew’s mission added to a protracted record of firsts for Russia’s area trade after a number of setbacks, together with botched launches. In “The Problem” a surgeon performed by 38-year-old Yulia Peresild — one in all Russia’s most glamorous actresses — is shipped to the ISS to avoid wasting a cosmonaut injured throughout a spacewalk.
Director Klim Shipenko, 39, who was accountable for digital camera, lighting and sound, introduced again 30 hours of footage, 50 minutes of which had been used within the remaining lower.
‘We’re Russia’
Peresild and Shipenko underwent coaching for 4 months earlier than going to area on a Soyuz spacecraft accompanied by a cosmonaut.
The sequences had been shot within the Russian module of the ISS and featured cameo appearances by three Russian cosmonauts stationed there on the time. The digital camera adopted Peresild shifting by the cramped area, her blonde hair floating in zero gravity.
Forward of the movie’s launch, the capsule which introduced Peresild and Shipenko again to Earth was placed on show in central Moscow. Tatyana Kulikova, who works at a manufacturing facility within the metropolis of Ufa, mentioned she regarded foward to watching the film. “We’re Russia, and Russia is at all times forward,” the 45-year-old instructed AFP.
The movie was a joint challenge of area company Roscosmos and high Russian TV community Channel One, whose boss Konstantin Ernst didn’t conceal his pleasure in beating Hollywood. “We’re all followers of ‘Gravity’,” Ernst instructed reporters on Monday, referring to the Hollywood blockbuster starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
“However our ‘Problem’ shot in precise weightlessness exhibits that was simply CGI” in Hollywood movies, he mentioned, referring to computer-generated imagery. In keeping with Ernst, the movie value lower than a billion rubles ($12 million), though the worth tag of your complete challenge has not been revealed.
(AFP)
