Space: the Russian team that shot the first film in orbit back to Earth
Russian actress Yulia Peressild just after the Soyuz MS-18 capsule landed in the steppes 150 km from Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan on October 17, 2021. AP
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Actress Yulia Peressild and director Klim Chipenko had been sent into space to shoot a film.
Brought back to earth by a Russian cosmonaut this Sunday morning, October 17, they spent 12 days aboard the international space station.
A successful challenge for Russia, which wanted to be the first nation to send a film crew into space.
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With our correspondent in Moscow,
Paul Gogo
The idea came from the United States, but Russia brought it
to life first
.
Sunday morning, actress Yulia Peressild and director Klim Chipenko returned to dry land in the steppes of Kazakhstan after spending 12 days in the international space station.
Objective: to
shoot the first film
ever made in space.
It will be called
The Challenge
and Youlia Peressild will play a surgeon sent into the cosmos to save a cosmonaut.
“
It's very difficult to describe this atmosphere when you look out the window and see the earth,
” she says.
We would really like to succeed in conveying this atmosphere in our film, through the eyes of a person who is not professional, because my character is not a professional of the cosmos.
"
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Strong competitor in the space race
For 12 days, the cinema rubbed shoulders with the pragmatism of Russian scientists.
A film crew was present in the steppes to film the very real and framed return of the two artists.
Cinema, science but also geopolitics.
With this coup, Russia wants to show the whole world that it remains a strong competitor in the space race.
The key moments of this trip were broadcast live on Russian television.
But the operation did not trigger a wave of patriotism among the Russians.
Many of them deplore today that their space program is found overtaken by the innovations of the American Elon Musk.
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To listen: Geopolitics, the debate: Space as a field of power rivalries
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