The Challenge

(2023)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 2,890 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2023

Runtime: 170 min

Country: Russia

Director: Клим Шипенко

Cast: Юлия Пересильд, Милош Бикович, Клим Шипенко, Алёна Мордовина, Владимир Машков

Plot

Thoracic surgeon Evgenia Belyaeva has one month to prepare for a flight to the International Space Station, where she must operate 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?

Cosmonaut Oleg Bogdanov gets severely injured during EVA at ISS. There is no way he can be brought back in his current state and he is slowly dying. The female thoracic surgeon, Eugenia Belyaeva, is selected from several specialist to fly to space and try to save Bogdanov. She is a very professional surgeon, but not very happy person in normal life: single mom with a teenager daughter, who still cannot forget the death of her husband and believes that she was the reason of it. The success of a surgery at ISS is not guaranteed to say the least, and this medium complexity surgery, if done on Earth, can easily turn into complete disaster in space.