The Challenge (2023 film)
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The Challenge (Russian: Вызов, romanized: Vyzov) is a 2023 Russian space drama film co-written and directed by Klim Shipenko. It is the first professionally made fictional film that has scenes in which professional actors appear shot in space (for example, the 1984 film Return from Orbit was also a professionally made fictional film in which some scenes were filmed in space, but in Return from Orbit, the scenes in spaces did not include professional actors but cosmonauts instead; and non-fictional document films have been filmed in space before, like For All Mankind (1989) or A Beautiful Planet (2016). These took place aboard the International Space Station. The film stars Yulia Peresild as a surgeon sent to space to help an injured cosmonaut. The film's cast also includes Miloš Biković and Vladimir Mashkov. The film crew was accompanied by cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky, and Pyotr Dubrov, and NASA astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei.
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Directed by | Klim Shipenko |
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Edited by | Tim Pavelko |
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Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 165 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
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Box office | $23.4 million (total amount)[1][2] |
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Time in space | 11 days, 22 hours and 13 minutes (35–40 minutes of production) |
Missions | Soyuz MS-19/Soyuz MS-18 (Expedition 65) (Equipment launched on Progress MS-17[3] and returned on Soyuz MS-18) |
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This is the first collaboration between the Russian space corporation Roscosmos and the public broadcaster Channel One, with an approximate budget of around 1.155 billion rubles.[4] It is also the world's first feature-length fiction film to have scenes shot in space by a professional filmmaker.[5][6][7] Filming in orbit took place for nearly two weeks, and premiered on the World Cosmonautics Day, the 62nd anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 12 April 2023, at the State Kremlin Palace in the Moscow Kremlin.[8]
The Challenge was theatrically released in Serbia and Russia on 20 April 2023 by Central Partnership, on an analogue of IMAX called CosMAX.[9][10]
The film collected more than 1 billion rubles at the box office by the thirteenth day of theatrical showings.[11] It holds the record for the highest-grossing Russian film on its opening day, and it grossed over 2 billion rubles against a production budget of 905 million rubles.[12][13]