Russia releases first feature film shot in space

Visitors inspect the Russian Soyuz MS-18 space capsule which brought back to the Earth on October 17, 2021 Russian actress Yulia Peresild, in Moscow on April 18, 2023. The Russian actress and film director spent 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie made in Space. – Photo: AFP

The first feature film shot in space premiered in Russian cinemas on Thursday, as Moscow delighted in beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the West over Ukraine.

The Challenge is about a surgeon dispatched to the International Space Station (ISS) to save an injured cosmonaut.