The thoracic surgeon Evgenia Belyaeva has only one month to prepare for the flight to the International Space Station, where she has to perform surgery on a crew member. Will she be up for the challenge? Can she overcome her fears and insecurities? Will she be able to perform the complicated surgery in zero gravity, and give the cosmonaut a chance to return to Earth alive?
This is a classic space-related drama. Astronaut gets fucked in space, doctor on Earth prepares some austronauts for making the surgery, eventually goes back to space. The acting is nice, the story is good, but what makes this movie a masterpiece is that parts of the movie were shot on the International Space Station, with real cosmonauts as actors, some former cosmonauts having cameo roles and the main protagonist becoming a real cosmonaut, launching to ISS with the Soyuz MS-19 mission. All in all, it’s a very good movie and despite its 2 hours and 45 minutes runtime, it is entertaining enough and it also might be one of the most expensive movies ever made, if you include the rocket and the launch. Also, because of its great cinematography and the location where it was filmed, this is a very beautiful movie to see on a huge TV. Five popcorns and it flies into the Movie Vault.
