The Challenge

Apr 20, 2023

2h 44m

★ 7.2

Overview

Thoracic surgeon Evgenia Belyaeva has one month to prepare for a flight to the International Space Station, where she must operate on a crew member. Will she be up for the challenge? Can she overcome her fears and insecurities? Will she be able to perform the complicated surgery in zero gravity, and give the cosmonaut a chance to return to Earth alive?

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Yellow, Black & White

Roscosmos

Channel One

START Studio

Cinema Foundation of Russia

Central Partnership

Glavkosmos

The Challenge Trailers

Cast

Evgenia Belyaeva

Yulia Peresild

Vladislav Nikolaev

Miloš Biković

Klim Shipenko

Alyona Mordovina

Volin

Vladimir Mashkov

Ivanov

Oleg Novitsky

Anton Shkaplerov

Galina

Elena Valyushkina

Masha

Varvara Volodina

Valentin Borisovich

Andrey Shchepochkin

Valentin Borisovich

Aleksandr Baluev

Dmitriy Yuryevich

Igor Gordin

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7.1

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6.7

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6.3

Proxima

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5.9

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7.2

Gravity

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8.0

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4.5

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10.0

Stationed at Home

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5.3

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5.0

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7.0

First Man

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5.7

The Astronaut

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5.3

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0.0

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10.0

Against Night

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A crash landing in Mongolia forces a cosmonaut to confront the loss of his wife and young daughter years earlier.

5.0

Darkside

Sep 17, 2022

When an unthinkable tragedy disrupts the lives of astronaut Sam Bowman and his wife Sarah, Sam accepts an interstellar mission to save the lives of a missing crew on a deep space voyage, abandoning his life on Earth in the process. But when a critical failure leaves him without a crew, and without hope, he's forced to reckon with a harrowing guilt he can no longer avoid.

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9.5

A Brief Look at the Space Race

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8.1

2001: A Space Odyssey

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6.6

2010

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