The first screening of the Russian movie “The Challenge” took place in China. Actress Yulia Peresild announced this on Instagram (the owner of the company Meta is known as an extremist and is banned in Russia).
Peresild came to Beijing to attend the premiere and give an interview. According to him, Chinese people will be able to watch “The Challenge” on March 15.
The first screening of “The Challenge” will take place. Hooray! The audience is happy. We still have a lot of interesting things ahead of us! I will share!” – said the artist.
The Russian premiere of “The Challenge” took place on April 12, 2023. The movie was shot on the International Space Station (ISS). Peresild visited space together with director Klim Shipenko. They returned to Earth 12 days after shooting the movie.
Peresild said many actresses drop out of auditions right in the preparation for the flight. The artist’s understudy was Alena Mordvina, who trained for three months.
According to the scenario of “The Challenge”, surgeon Zhenya Belyaeva (Yulia Peresild) must prepare for a space flight and go to the ISS to save an astronaut. Cast: Milos Bikovich, Vladimir Mashkov, Oleg Novitsky, Anton Shkaplerov, Pyotr Dubrov, Elena Valyushkina, Varvara Volodina, Alexander Baluev.
Previously Shipenko, director of the movie “The Challenge”, did not rule out the release of a third film about space.