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Russian features about cosmonauts screened at Day of Short Films in Dresden

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Russian features about cosmonauts screened at Day of Short Films in Dresden


28.12.2018

The Russian Center of the German-Russian Institute of Culture held the screenings of the Russian short films Cradle and Way to Heaven in the framework of the International Short Film Day. The films were released by the world's first film company specializing in space theme, Space Film Industries (SFi).

One of the tasks of Cradle, in the opinion of its authors, is to get a true-to-life depiction of space flights and the character of cosmonauts. Cradle is not a documentary but it was shot with documentary meticulousness: the shootings took place on the real spacecraft of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, as well as on operating spacecraft simulators at the Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City. The real space inventory was used during the filming.


Film producer Tatyana Bodrova was consulted by cosmonauts: twice Hero of the USSR Alexander Alexandrov and Hero of Russia Yury Usachev. 
Way to Heaven was shot with the participation of the staff of Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This is the first Russian documentary about contenders for a place in cosmonaut groups. The pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Anton Shkaplerov, test-cosmonaut Sergey Zhukov, applicants for the cosmonaut team Fyodor Girusov, Denis Efremov, Oleg Ivanov, Dmitry Stepanyuk, Yuri Timofeev took part in the shooting. 


The Russian Center of the German-Russian Institute of Culture joined Short Film Day action and presented the program Stars in Short Films, which included No by Ivan Petukhov, Bribe by Alexey Kharitonov, In a Foreign Land by Mikhail Chernykh, Casting by Vlad Makeychik, and Ricochet by Temur Juraev.

Vitaly Kolesnik, Dresden

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