Reviews of the film "Salute-7", released in 2017, are collected in this article. This is a Russian drama directed by Klim Shipenko. It was based on real historical events when the crew of the Soyuz T-13 spacecraft repaired the Salyut-7 orbital station for eight hours. This happened in 1985.
Premiere Preparation
Reviews of the film "Salute-7" can be read in this article. A large-scale work was carried out to the output of the tape on the screens. For example, back in July 2017, a half-hour excerpt was shown to residents of the city of Baikonur. Also at the special show were representatives of Roscosmos and domestic space and rocket enterprises.
The film "Salute-7", the release date of which was determined for October 2017, many waited impatiently.
The official premiere of the tape took place on August 18 in Kaliningrad, as part of the international short film festival "In short." And on October 4, a preliminary demonstration was organized at the State Kremlin Palace, which was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the first launch of an artificial Earth satellite sent into space by the Soviet Union.
In the wide Russian hire recently released the picture "Salute-7." Release Date - October 12th.
The plot of the picture
The events of the tape begin to unfold on February 11, 1985. A sudden incident occurs on this day. The Salyut-7 domestic orbital station, which has been unmanned in orbit for six months now, has gone out of control and has lost any contact with it. She no longer answered the signals that were transmitted from the flight control center.
When watching the film "Salute-7" (2017), viewers, along with the heroes, begin to worry about the fate of the station. In addition, the probability of its fall to Earth remains high. And this can not only lead to human casualties, but also cause a serious blow to Soviet space science. After all, the station until this moment was the pride of Soviet cosmonautics. Now, the reputation of the whole country will be hit.
It is noteworthy that these events take place at the height of the Cold War, due to which the situation is exacerbated even more. After all, the station is completely uncontrollable, which means it can destroy any object anywhere in the world.
Responsible mission
The film “Salute-7”, the plot of which is given in this article, tells that in June 1985 the leadership of the Mission Control Center makes a responsible decision - to send a spaceship into Earth’s orbit, the crew of which must find the station and restore its operability. The film “Salyut-7” (2017) details the preparations for the launch. The crew includes experienced astronauts - Vladimir Fedorov and Victor Alekhine.
In the film "Salute-7", the plot of which is close to reality, they will not only find the station, but also overtake it. Without colliding, join a moving and at the same time uncontrolled spacecraft. Before them, no one in the world has ever done such a thing. After this, it is necessary to find out the essence of the breakdowns and prevent the impending catastrophe.
Work on the picture
The idea of this film came from Alexei Samoletov. This is a television journalist who specializes in space issues. He told her to producer Bakur Bakuradze, so the film "Salute-7" appeared. History has impressed many. In the work on the script, the creators relied on the real diaries of Viktor Savinykh. They described in detail all the details of the expedition, but it was difficult for a person who did not know the intricacies of space subjects. Therefore, it required the involvement of experts. Some episodes had to be simplified, and some, on the contrary, adapted for perception by the average audience.
The main consultants were astronauts Alexander Lazutkin and Sergey Krikalev, as well as the head of Roskosmos Igor Komarov, employees of the space rocket corporation Energia. All this made it possible to reliably tell the story of Salyut-7.
Filming
Especially for this picture, a film pavilion was built, which was located in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. The fact is that the premises of Lenfilm could not accommodate everything necessary for working on the tape.
Especially for the painting “Salyut-7,” they created an exact copy of the Cosmonaut Training Center and the Mission Control Center, as well as mock-ups of “Salyut-7” and “T-13 Union”. Layouts were made in full size. Space state corporations provided equipment for filming, which had previously been in space.
The actors had to withstand serious loads. They trained hard physically. Filming went on for several months. The creators of the picture recall that they had a working day of 12 hours, 90% of this time was spent in creating a weightless effect in the frame. Actors moved around the site using ropes. In order for them to understand in detail how the body behaves in zero gravity and what a person feels at the same time, they were lifted on an IL-76 airplane to a height of several thousand meters. After that, the aircraft abruptly went along a parabola, for 26 seconds there was a feeling of weightlessness. There were at least 10 such flights.
Filmmakers
The director of the picture was Klim Shipenko. He is also known to the film community as an actor and screenwriter. As a director, he shot the tragic detective "Who am I?" about a young man who has lost his memory, and the romantic comedy "He loves and dislikes" in which the protagonist on the eve of the wedding meets another girl who changes his attitude towards life.
A whole group of authors worked on the script of the film. These are Natalya Merkulova, Alexey Samoletov, Klim Shipenko and Alexey Chupov.
Operator Sergey Astakhov deserves special mention. On his account several dozen paintings. Including “Brother” by Alexei Balabanov, “Serpent Spring” by Nikolai Lebedev, “Poor, Poor Pavel” Vitaly Melnikov, “The Case of the Dead Souls” by Pavel Lungin, “Anna Karenina” by Sergey Solovyov.
He was specially invited to work on this film, because in the cinema environment he is known not only as a cameraman, but also as a specialist in difficult shooting techniques. It was Astakhov who designed and controlled complex filming devices, creating the effect of weightlessness and work in outer space.
He was not only a director of photography, but also an engineer in all technological shootings. Surprisingly, for each frame, their own shooting systems were developed, all kinds of mounts and suspensions were used. All this was done in order to show as realistically as possible what happens to objects in zero gravity. And also provide a smooth transition to computer animation.
Most experts and critics admitted that the film crew worked on the film "Salute-7" the most professional.
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
One of the main roles in the film was played by the Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir Vdovichenkov. He recreated on the screen the image of the crew commander of the Soyuz T-13, Vladimir Fedorov. The prototype of this character was twice the hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov.
In the film "Salute-7" Vladimir Vdovichenkov played a courageous and strong man who is ready for anything to fulfill his mission.
Vdovichenkov is a very popular actor in Russia. Fame came to him in 2003 after the role of Kostya, nicknamed the Cat in the dramatic action movie of Pyotr Buslov "Boomer". For this work, he received the “Idol” award, a diploma for best acting in professional cinema at the VGIK International Festival.
In 2006, he was awarded the prize for Best Actor at the Constellation International Film Festival for his work in Alexei Karelin’s military drama Time to Collect Stones.
It is also worth noting his roles in the historical drama of Vladimir Bortko “Taras Bulba”, the social drama of Andrei Zvyagintsev “Leviathan”, his roles in the series “Border. Taiga novel”, “The Brigade”, “The White Guard”, “Homeland”, “Optimists”.
Pavel Derevyanko
In the film "Salute-7" actor Pavel Derevyanko played the second main role - the flight engineer of the Soyuz T-13 ship, Viktor Alekhine. And this character has a real prototype - this is the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, twice the hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Savinykh. It was he who left detailed diary entries, on the basis of which the creators of the tape worked.
Derevianko made his movie debut back in 2001. He played a major role in the comedy of Alexander Kott "We drove two drivers." Among his most notable works, one should mention the drama by Nikolai Dostal “The Shtrafbat”, the phantasmagoria of Pavel Lungin “The Case of Dead Souls”, the historical and biographical film of Nicholas Dostal “Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno”, the satirical comedy of Marius Weisberg “Rzhevsky against Napoleon”.
Alexander Samoilenko
In the film "Salute-7" actor Alexander Samoilenko played the role of flight director Valery Shubin. The prototype for this character was the Soviet cosmonaut Valery Ryumin.
Samoilenko is a graduate of the Schukin School. He played at the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater, the Theater of Nations, the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.
He played his first film role in 1986. In the comedy of Alexander Pankratov "Tricks in the old spirit" appeared in the image of Napoleon. In most films, he gets secondary or even episodic roles.
Samoilenko as a director shot two pictures. These are the films "Horror Novel" and "Let us be at you", but they did not achieve success.
Reviews about the picture
Reviews for the film "Salute-7" received mostly positive. And from critics, and from the audience. Those who saw the picture, note that the actors managed to demonstrate the full range of human feelings, a quality picture deserves rave reviews.
In the reviews of the film "Salute-7," the professional work of the operators and the elaborate computer graphics are constantly noted. All this creates the effect of realism. The viewer can really feel like an astronaut in zero gravity.
The script has also been meticulously worked out, the plot twists are unexpected and keep the viewer in suspense until the very end.