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MOSCOW, April 12 Actress Yulia Peresild, who starred in the film «The Challenge», filmed in space, told reporters at a press approach that she wrote farewell letters to children and testament before the flight into space.
The Challenge is the first feature film shot in space aboard the ISS. As part of the project, on October 5, 2021, the first ever film crew went into orbit — actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov. As part of the ground-based filming unit, 53 filming shifts took place, three of them in the Il-76 MDK zero-gravity laboratory aircraft. There were 12 shooting shifts on the ISS.
«This is my biggest fear, which was … It's not so scary to sit in a rocket as writing letters to your children and signing a will with a notary with your own hand … My children went through this story very beautifully, just like my parents … Both mom and dad, and my two daughters are people who have gone this way. And I think that we were in a rocket with Klim, I already saw his wife, and mother, and children. I think that it was much harder for them than for us, sitting in rocket,» said Peresild.
During the screening of the film, the audience applauded repeatedly.
Film director Klim Shipenko spoke about how the shooting took place. «The hardest part of filming The Challenge is in space, because no one has ever made a feature film there. There was no one to ask, no one to consult, so you had to adapt, it all had to be done by a very small film crew: only five people «, including actors, four of them were sometimes in the frame. Movies about space in general and on Earth are rarely filmed. It was all a very big challenge,» Shipenko said.
The premiere of the film was attended by the Minister of Culture of Russia Olga Lyubimova, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, producer Konstantin Ernst, actress Yulia Peresild, actor Milos Bikovich, actor Vladimir Mashkov, actress Elena Valyushkina, actor Vladimir Yaglych, TV presenter Ivan Urgant, TV presenter Elena Malysheva, actress Christina Asmus, showman Mikhail Galustyan and others.
Actor Milos Bikovic spoke about his role in the film. “For the first time in history, it turns out like this … Now we understand that it can be, it is possible. Because they made a movie in space … When I watched Klim and Yulia descend from orbit, I felt proud that I knew them. «I never imagined that I would be a part of this moment, the creation of cinematic history. My character is a surgeon, this is a person who is very good at his job, very ambitious, very successful. He was a candidate to fly into space, but did not fly» , — he said.
Bikovich noted that he himself would like to fly into space, and if invited, he will go there. The actor was preparing for a flight into space, along with Shipenko and Peresild, in an airplane that fell and for 23 seconds made them feel weightless on Earth, as in space.
Peresild after the premiere of the film «Challenge» sang the chorus of the song «Echo of Love». The song was also featured in the film itself.
Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov thanked everyone who took part in the filming. «We did it, we shot the first feature film in space … I thank fate that I am a person of such a serious profession as an astronaut, I was able not only to touch, but to plunge into cinematography. Not just, but right in space, where my home is «, — said the astronaut.
Earlier, the general director of Channel One, the producer of the film, Konstantin Ernst, said that the team is ready to shoot the second part of the film, given that Russia will continue to develop its lunar program.
«With Yulia Peresild, I'm ready to fly to the Moon, Mars and conquer any space… It's possible. The limits of human capabilities are just illusions,» Shipenko said.
After the premiere of the film, the director of the film thanked Roskosmos. «Thank you very much for giving us such an opportunity to shoot a film in space… I gave everything 100 percent… It was no less difficult to shoot on Earth than in space,» concluded Shipenko. finger in the soot taken from the spacecraft in which the film crew returned to Earth, and make a wish.