Cuban diplomats in Moscow attend a screening of the film Vyzov

Havana, Aug 14 (RHC) A special screening of the film "Výzov" (Challenge), organized by the Russian Society of Friendship with Cuba, took place this Monday at the Judózhestvenny cinema in Moscow.

Representatives of the Cuban embassy in Moscow were invited to the exhibition, and the film was shown in Russian with Spanish subtitles.

Prior to the film, the island's diplomatic headquarters presented a fragment of the documentary "Havana, July 25-26, 1961" which shows the massive reception offered by the Cuban people to the world's first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.

In his speech at the ceremony held at the cinema, Alekséi Lavrov, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and President of the Society of Friendship with Cuba, thanked the Fond Kino fund, and the Central Partnership film company for organizing the evening.

For his part, the charge d'affaires of the Cuban embassy in Moscow, Marcos Lazo, pointed out that this is a unique opportunity to see the film "Výzov", which describes and proposes what many believed was impossible to do, but which turned out to be a success.

The film is a joint project of the Pervy Kanal TV channel, Glavkosmos, the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), the Yellow, Black and White studio, the Start online cinema, with support from the Fond Kino film fund.

For the filming of the film, on October 5, 2021, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft.

In the plot, surgeon Zhenya, played by Peresild, must prepare for a space flight for a month and go to the ISS to save a cosmonaut. She will have to carry out a complex operation in conditions of weightlessness, on which the patient's return alive depends.

Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky and Piotr Dubrov participated in the filming on the ISS. Novitski, Peresild, and Shipenko returned to Earth on October 17, 2021 in the Yuri Gagarin spacecraft descent vehicle (Soyuz MS-18). Shkaplerov and Dubrov returned from the station on March 30, 2022.

Vyzov's premiere was held at the Oktiabr cinema in Moscow on April 12, 2023, coinciding with the 62nd anniversary of Gagarin's flight. (Source: PL)