This is my most anticipated film of all time. The Challenge. A Russian made film (started in 2021) and the world’s first feature-length Science Fiction-Drama that was filmed (partially) in space with actors, by the professional filmmaker, Klim Alekseevich Shipenko. Although not the first film to ‘use’ scenes shot in space; this is exceptionally different. The actual footage presented in the movie is around 30-40 minutes. The rest of the film was shot on Earth. The film crew and actors were in orbit for approximately two weeks.

The film stars Yulia Peresild – A Russian Stage Actress, Singer and Cosmonaut– the first professional actress in Outer Space! The film also carries two well known actors:  Miloš Biković and Vladimir Mashkov.

The premiere was held on World Cosmonautics Day, (April 12th, 2023) which coincided with the 62nd anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, (April 12th 1961) at the State Kremlin Palace in the Moscow Kremlin.^[8]

The viewing collected more than 1 Billion Rubles in 13 days (about 10.9 million) –– the most ever for an opening day, grossing over 2 billion Rubles on a 905 Million Ruble budget, which is to say… impressive.

The story is about a Earthbound Surgeon sent to the ISS to perform surgery on an injured Cosmonaut, too ill to return to Earth.