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The house race has expanded to new frontiers lately, transferring into enterprise, tourism … and now cinema.
Russian movie makers on Tuesday launched a trailer for “The Problem,” which grew to become the primary ever characteristic movie to be shot in house in 2021.
The trailer outlines the film’s plot: A surgeon, Zhenya, performed by Russian actress Yulia Peresild, has to carry out coronary heart surgical procedure on a sick cosmonaut in house as a result of he’s unable to return to Earth for therapy. The affected person is portrayed by real-life cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy.
Produced by the Yellow, Black and White studio and Channel One Russia – a state-controlled TV station – alongside the nation’s house company, Roscomos, “the film is aimed to popularize Russia’s house actions, in addition to glorify (the) cosmonaut career,” a press release asserting the venture learn.
Peresild and producer-director Klim Shipenko traveled to the Worldwide House Station (ISS) – 250 miles above earth – alongside veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov in October 2021 and filmed the film over the course of 12 days.
Peresild was chosen to star within the film after Roscomos posted an open casting name in November 2020. Along with offering an audition tape, potential stars needed to bear medical, psychological and bodily assessments to make sure they might address the calls for of house journey.
Just some months after capturing on the ISS wrapped, Russia invaded Ukraine and later introduced in July 2022 that it was planning to go away the house station – which it operates in partnership with NASA – after 2024.
Though “The Problem” is the primary feature-length movie to be shot in house, it’s not the primary venture to be filmed aboard the ISS. Earlier movies embody a 2002 IMAX documentary narrated by Tom Cruise and a 2012 eight-minute science fiction movie by entrepreneur and house vacationer Richard Garriott.
Cruise and director Doug Liman had hoped to nab the prize of first characteristic movie shot in house, revealing in 2020 that they had been engaged on a venture in tandem with NASA and Elon Musk’s House X.
“The Problem” can be launched on April 12.