TOKYO, Apr 25, Ksenia Naka. The president of the Pandora company, which started the screening of Alexander Sokurov's film «Fairy Tale» in Japan on Saturday, Rie Nakano said that she was interested in the film «Challenge» — the first film in the history of mankind filmed in space, and if she likes it, she is ready to release it for rent.
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«To be honest, I didn't know about this movie. I first learned about the film "Challenge" from you. And I really want to see. I have already requested the Russian side, and they promised to send me for viewing. If I watch and like the film, I would like to release it,” said Nakano.
The company «Pandora», headed by Rie Nakano, released on Saturday in Japan the painting «Fairy Tale» by Alexander Sokurov. Simultaneously with the start of the film’s distribution, her company organized a retrospective of Sokurov’s tapes — films from different years will be shown every day for two weeks: The Russian Ark, The Lonely Voice of a Man, The Second Circle, The Stone, Moloch, Taurus , more than 14 films in total.
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.
There were 53 filming shifts within the framework of the ground-based filming unit, three of them took place in the aircraft — the Il-76 MDK weightlessness laboratory, 12 shifts — on the ISS.
According to the plot of the picture, the thoracic surgeon Zhenya has to prepare for a space flight in a month and go to the ISS to save the astronaut. The main character needs to carry out the most difficult operation under weightless conditions, on which the astronaut's chances of returning to Earth alive depend. tens and hundreds of thousands of viewers. html» data-title='The film «Challenge» topped the box office in Russia and the CIS over the weekend'>