The Challenge
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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?
Status: Released
Released Date: 2023-04-20
Runtime: 164 mins
Director: Klim Shipenko
Writer: Bakur Bakuradze, Klim Shipenko, Ilya Malakhova
Spoken language: Pусский
Genres: Drama
Original title: The Challenge
Production Companies: Yellow, Black & White, Roscosmos, Channel One, START Studio, Central Partnership, Glavkosmos
Production Countries: Russia
Cast
Yulia Peresild
Miloš Biković
Klim Shipenko
Alyona Mordovina
Vladimir Mashkov
Oleg Novitsky
Anton Shkaplerov
Elena Valyushkina
Varvara Volodina
Andrey Shchepochkin
Aleksandr Baluev
Igor Gordin
Aleksey Barabash
Aleksey Grishin
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