The Challenge (2023 film)

The Challenge
A Russian stamp printed in 2023 in honor of the film
Directed byKlim Shipenko
Screenplay by
  • Klim Shipenko
  • Bakur Bakuradze (ru)
  • Ivan Zamorov
  • Nailya Malakhova
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byTim Pavelko
Music by
  • Nikolay Rostov
  • Sergey Cheremisinov
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release dates
Running time
165 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget
  • ₽905 million (gross)
Box office$23.4 million (total amount)[1][2]
The Challenge
Cast launched to ISS for the film
Space career
A film shot on a space station
Time in space
11 days, 22 hours and 13 minutes (35–40 minutes of production)
MissionsSoyuz MS-19/Soyuz MS-18 (Expedition 65)
(Equipment launched on Progress MS-17[3] and returned on Soyuz MS-18)
Mission insignia

The Challenge (Russian: Вызов, romanized: Vyzov) is a 2023 Russian space drama film co-written and directed by Klim Shipenko. Filmed on the International Space Station (ISS), it is the first feature-length film featuring actors to be shot in space.[note 2] The film stars Yulia Peresild as a surgeon sent to space to help an injured cosmonaut. The 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.

The Challenge marks 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] Filming on the ISS took place for nearly two weeks.[5]

The Challenge premiered on Cosmonautics Day[5] and was theatrically released in Serbia and Russia on 20 April 2023 by Central Partnership, on CoSMAX, an analogue of IMAX.[6][7]

The film generated more than 1 billion rubles at the box office by the thirteenth day of theatrical showings.[8] 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.[9][10]


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  1. ^ "The Challenge (2023)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  2. ^ "The Challenge (2023)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Equipment for shooting 1st movie in space delivered to ISS by Russian cargo spacecraft". 2 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  4. ^ "На дофинансирование фильма «Вызов» продюсеры запросили 250 млн рублей" [Producers requested 250 million rubles to finance the film The Challenge]. Business FM (in Russian). 24 August 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. ^ a b "First feature film shot in space is out, collects $5.5 million in opening week". India Today. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  6. ^ Bates, Kryzt (30 March 2023). "Russia has developed a domestic analogue of IMAX". Gamingdeputy.com. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Russia develops local version of IMAX". Xinhua News Agency. 31 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Stolbov, Sergei (7 August 2023). "Фильм «Вызов» с Юлией Пересильд собрал в прокате более 2 млрд рублей" [The film The Challenge with Yulia Peresild collected more than 2 billion rubles at the box office]. Tsargrad TV (in Russian). Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  10. ^ "«Вызов» заработал 2 млрд рублей за 4,5 месяца в российском прокате" [The film The Challenge earned 2 billion rubles in 4.5 months at the Russian box office]. Cybersport.ru (in Russian). 7 August 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2023.