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Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko will go into orbit to shoot the film Challenge. Some scenes will be filmed at the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti reports.
Roscosmos announced that the actress and director have successfully passed medical selection. Alyona Mordovina and Alexei Dudin will be their stunt doubles.
The representative of the First Channel noted that for the members of the film crew from next month an intense period of preparation for the flight will begin. They will be tested on a centrifuge, a vibration bench, as well as familiarization and training flights on an airplane in zero gravity, parachute jumps. All this will be covered on the air of the First Channel.
As Russkiy Mir
reported earlier, about 3,000 Russian women initially applied for participation in the selection. Filming in orbit is scheduled to begin in October this year, the production of the film has become a joint project of Channel One and the state corporation Roscosmos. The film tells about a girl who was not going to go into space, but by the will of fate ended up in orbit. The authors of the film are convinced that filming in space will become a milestone for the development of cinematography.
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