VIDEO: Film from Space. Actress and Director Return to Earth

Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko have returned to Earth accompanied by cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy after a two-week filming at the International Space Station, reports RIA Novosti.

Earlier today, Peresild, Shipenko, and Novitskiy bid farewell to their fellow cosmonauts remaining at the ISS—Russian Pyotr Dubrovin and Anton Shkaplerov, Americans Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough, and Megan McArthur, Japanese Akihiko Hoshide, and Frenchman Thomas Pesquet—before entering the spacecraft and closing the hatches.

At 7:35 am, the crew landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

It is worth noting that on October 5, the crewed spacecraft “Soyuz MS-19” launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station, which included not only experienced cosmonauts but also representatives from the film industry.

For the first time in history, a film has been shot in space with the participation of non-professional cosmonauts. Shipenko and Peresild traveled to the ISS to film the movie “Challenge,” which tells the story of a female doctor who goes to the ISS to save a cosmonaut from death.

The video includes footage of rescuers assisting the actors as they exit the landed Soyuz MS-1.