"The Challenge" is about a surgeon dispatched to the International Space Station (ISS) to save an injured cosmonaut
The first feature film shot in space premiered in Russian cinemas on Thursday, as Moscow exulted in beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the West.
"The Challenge" is about a surgeon dispatched to the International Space Station (ISS) to save an injured cosmonaut.
Russia sent an actress and a film director for a 12-day stint on the ISS in October 2021 to film scenes aboard the orbiting laboratory.
The Russian crew beat a Hollywood project announced in 2020 by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lauded the film, saying: "We are the first to have shot a feature film in orbit, aboard a spacecraft. Once again the first".