Cheburashka against the "call"

The premiere of the main state blockbuster took place: film -screen, politics, melodrama, business ...

The main word "first" in this exciting premiere.

The first film shot in space. Previously, Tom Cruise. Channel One as an ideological inspirer. And even the partner of the film - Tinkoff bank - also really wanted to be the first and first sent his cards into space. And the second partner - MegaFon - was the first to take off the advertising video in space. Both Megafon and Tinkoff are smoothly floating in the zero gravity of the film in the form of a production playing.

The promotion of the picture is giant. Any Russian woman could send a self -test - a monologue of Pushkinskaya Tatyana. Tests, castings, tests. Centrifuge. Is it short, for a long time - they chose actress Julia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko.

Further, the country with excitement monitored them with the astronaut Anton wardrobe and return. And the real conquerors of the Cosmos were worried that due to the filming , a schedule of flight programs was torn off , and it was necessary to extend the stay of astronauts in orbit for six months.

Such are quite peaceful first -headed news.

And then two premieres on the day of astronautics: solemn - in the Kremlin - and spectacular: with air gymnasts, depicting weightlessness against the dome of the first hall of the October cinema against the background of the star screen.

Probably, Nikita Mikhalkov, who once equipped the Kremlin Palace of Congresses with modern projection equipment, a huge screen and sound system of the Dolby Surround format for the score of the “Siberian barber”, bites the elbows with envy.

Moreover, the president himself expectedly connected to the promotion of the country's chief blockbuster. Or a film ... to his promotion.

Vladimir Putin called the “challenge” a unique event for the world cinema, thanked the film team for the fact that “here we are also the first”, and for the fact that the picture embodies the dreams of the young generation about the feat. ”

The feat is especially in demand today.

Production - on a wide foot:

• Channel One,

• Goskosmos State Corporation,

• "Glavkosmos",

• Yellow, Black and White,

• online cinema Start,

• With the support of the Film Fund.

• Rogozin is among the main producers.

They talk about the budget of more than a billion rubles. But who counts him taking into account the contribution of Roscosmos and advertising on federal channels?

On April 13, the Russians began to receive an invitation to buy a ticket for a “challenge” through the newsletter of the public service portal. Something unprecedented.

Plot. Evgenia Belyaeva (Julia Peresild) is a thoracic surgeon. After family tragedy, it is concentrated exclusively on the profession. Therefore, it ignores the attention of his unmarried colleague, Hollywood handsome Vladislav (Milos Bikovich). But when an emergency occurs at the ISS - at the time of the accident, the lung of one of the astronauts is seriously damaged - the choice falls on Zhenya. It will fly into space and will do a small operation, because with an injured light astronaut it will not fly alive to the ground.

It makes no sense to describe in detail this story. Those who go cinema do not want to spoil the impression. And in films of this kind, not plot surprises make the weather. This is an attraction cinema, but with the furs of Russian spirituality with the furs of Russian sincerity. From “My Deltoplan” to Anna Herman with her tenderness under the dust dust of the stars. With tears in the eyes of Eugenia -Julia, which will enter the ice cosmos, and death will stop on the move, and on earth direct massage of the heart will do, just to save the patient. And the Tsup will applaud her standing. Like in the theater. And the beloved man will extend the hand of help through the stars: so once in “Legend No. 17” Tarasov mentally helped Kharlamov win. So the handsome Vladislav will give a constructive solution for a path task. It turns out that he is following the operation online ... by phone.

And there will be a place for both feat and sympathy. And love. And cognac for solid chief designers, who doubted the last. And a large film, in which only plenty is measured.

Even a bad prosecutor will arise with his poor intentions for a short time, but he will be quickly sniffed, and Putin will show a fist from the portrait.

For humor - in places with a strong survivor - the mother of Zhenya (Elena Valyushkina) is responsible. She will tam the prosecutor, and her daughter will dictate the list of purchases ... from Lake Baikal during a decisive moment of operation in zero gravity in zero. Mom’s heart is not very, why should she know about space. She watches space on TV.

It is curious that in many ways the scenario (in any case, in its long pre -flight exposition) mirrors the real adventures and tests of the director and actors in the Star Town. The astronaut Anton Kablirov conducts them a tour of the module, they find out many vital questions: from technical - to the device of the toilet and an exercise bike that may come in handy for the operation. And the emotions of Julia Peresild in space do not have to play - these are the feelings and experiences overwhelming her. The astronauts - her partners in the film - it turns out worse.

And the film itself mirrors the expectations of a giant audience - the population of a large country that wants to “not repeat”, but to believe that we are sincere, empathic, ready not to kill, but to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of others.

To believe that our cosmos is still ahead of the planet of the whole ... and not only on the screen.

Shipenko is a good director, we saw this in the “slave”, and in “Salute-7”, and in the “text” according to the declared “ino-agent” Glukhovsky. And in the main state blockbuster, he manages to remove a number of good episodes. For example, a high degree of take-off episodes or the endless spans of Julia with her ripe hair through the narrow corridors of the space station, cluttered with some boxes, details, incomprehensible things (the astronauts are jokingly call the ISS by an international space warehouse), its understandable human reflections at the moments of a giant-the mind of the incomprehensible-the mind of the mind is incomprehensible. space. Yes, and all the details associated with weightlessness: a stethoscope flying out of the hands, dropping blood drops in the air, a festive dinner in orbit, angles upside down, sleep in a sleeping bag fastened to a thin (3 cm) wall of the station.

“Call” is a film as a documentary inserts, with sentimentality heated to boiling water-in cinemas from April 20.

Then, on April 20, on Start they will begin to show the series “Call. About the film that conquered space. "

Do not compare our “challenge” with the bewitching visual symphony of “Interstellar” or with a visionary breakthrough of “gravity”. The authors got a Russian fantasy about a hypothetical country in which humanity can defeat the order and "instructors". True, the "instructors" themselves have already appropriated the film, rethinking it into a call to the feat.

Now the main question. Will the “challenge” at the box office “Cheburashka”, which raised more than 7 billion rubles in the box office? It is unlikely.

Moreover, Cheburashka visited space much earlier than a “call”.

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