On October 5, 2021, actress Yulia Peressild, 36, and director Klim Chipenko, 38, took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov aboard a Soyuz rocket to reach the International Space Station. Their mission: to shoot the first movie in space (and thus burn the courtesy of Tom Cruise and Doug Liman who have the same crazy project in the works, in cooperation with NASA and Space X, the company of billionaire Elon Musk.) Why the first film in space will be an unprecedented experience for the cinemaSelected among 3,000 candidates, Yulia Peressild therefore filmed 12 days on the smallest film set, the some 230 cubic meters of the Russian section of the ISS, under Klim Chipenko’s camera, also in charge of the lighting, sound recording and make-up. See also on KonbiniAs a small team, they canned Le Défi, the first film shot in space which will tell the space mission of a female doctor sent urgently into space to operate on a sick astronaut whose state of health does not allow him to return to Earth. The film is revealed in a first trailer but no release date is currently announced.
