On October 5, 2021, the filming group of the film “Call” arrived at the ISS - as claimed, the first picture, the shooting of which will be held in orbit. We checked whether this is really so.

The picture of Klim Shipenko under the working name “Call” is positioned as “The first film in the history of the cinema that will be starred in space”. About this It is said On the Channel One website, which organizes the project along with the Goskosmos State Corporation and the production company Yellow, Black and White. Similarly, the film is presented in headlines and notes TASS, RBC, "Interfax", "Novaya Gazeta", "Rossiya newspaper", "Russian BBC service", Euronews and many other large media.

In 2008 at the ISS He went Space tourist Richard Garriot. He became one of the few astronauts in the second generation - his father Fly In orbit in 1973 and 1983. For 11 days, Garriot-Jr. participated in the ISS in scientific experiments for NASA and the European Space Agency and even held the first art exhibition in space. Before, during and after the flight, he did not part with the camera - later a documentary was mounted from the footage of the material Man on a mission.

During his stay at the Garriot station, he did not limit himself to documentary shootings and persuaded the astronauts to participate in a short feature film during the time. Seminutic tape called Apoge of Fear I went out In 2012. According to the plot of the astronauts (they played themselves at the EXC, Edward Finka, Yuri Lonchakov, Greg Chamitoff, Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, after flying Garriot, who were leaving the Earth, who are more oxygen, which is needed for the remaining inhabitants of the station. Cosmonauts decide that aliens can be for the ISS, and go in searches.

Shortly before the Channel One and Roscosmos in September 2020 announced On the preparation of your project, with a similar idea He performed Actor and producer Tom Cruise. The support of this initiative has repeatedly He said One of the leaders of NASA Jim Brydenstayn. Nevertheless, in September 2021, The New York Times I wrotethat “no news about the development of the project” has been received since then.

How He emphasizes The editor of the COLLECTSPACE portal Robert Perlman, the qualitative difference between the “call” and the Apogee of Fear is that the professional director and professional actress purposefully flew into the orbit, and the filming of the feature film is the main (or at least one of the main) crew tasks. Moreover, unlike a very short amateur picture of Garriot, the Russian film will be full -length, although not completely shot in orbit - message Channel One, cadres from space will take 35–40 minutes of screen time.

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