Yulia Peresild

MOSCOW: The first feature film shot in space premiered in Russian cinemas on Thursday, as Moscow exulted in beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the West."The Challenge" is about a surgeon dispatched to the …

new video loaded: Russian Film Crew Returns From Shoot on Space StationtranscriptBacktranscriptRussian Film Crew Returns From Shoot on Space StationThe Russian actress Yulia Peresild and the film director Klim Shipenko returned to Earth…

Peresild, who plays the film's starring role and was selected from some 3,000 applicants, was extracted from the capsule to applause and a bouquet of flowers.…

Tom Cruise had previously announced that he will be shooting for an action flick this year in space. While he would have become the first star to have done it, a crew of a Russian film beat him to it.  Tom Cruise‘s plans of becoming the…

In a historic first, Russia has launched an actor and a film director into space to make a feature film in orbit — a project the nation’s space chief has hailed as a chance to raise the prestige of Russia’s space program. Actor…

The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX.…