Salyut-7 (2017)

September 22, 2017 (RU) • Action, Drama, Adventure • 106m

Overview

USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events.

Director

Klim Shipenko

Writers

Bakur Bakuradze, Alexey Chupov, Natalya Merkulova, Aleksey Samolyotov, Klim Shipenko

Top Billed

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Keywords

space mission space space station cosmonaut

Where to watch

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Top Billed Cast

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Vladimir Fyodorov

Pavel Derevyanko

Viktor Alyokhin

Aleksandr Samoylenko

Valeriy Shubin

Vitaliy Khaev

Yuriy Shumakov

Oksana Fandera

Svetlana Lazareva

Lyubov Aksyonova

Liliya Alyokhina

Roman Perelygin

Cosmonaut Plakhov

Mariya Mironova

Nina Fyodorova

Aleksandra Serebryakova

MCC's employee

Yuriy Ignatenko

MCC's employee

Andrey Polishchuk

Shumakov's deputy

Natalya Kudryashova

Physician

Polina Rudenko

Olya Fyodorova

Aleksandr Ratnikov

Shubin's deputy

Oksana Syrtsova

MCC's employee

Vasily Ignatich

Igor Ugolnikov

Boldyrev

Nikita Panfilov

Zaytsev

Artur Vakha

therapist

Kirill Ulyanov

Shubin's assistant

Artyom Semakin

Shubin's assistant

Aleksandr Vontov

general

Aleksandr Ilin

general

Vladimir Matveev

general

Andrey Tolshin

anchorman

Klim Shipenko

American astronaut

Mikhail Sakulin

French astronaut

Valeriy Filonov

Stepanych

Ekaterina Novikova

MCC's employee

Sergey Korenkov

Aleksandr Lenin

Igor Devlekamov

Irina Romasheva

Sergey Demidov

Konstantin Purusov

Crew

Kirill Bobrov

Director of Photography

Sergey Astakhov

Director of Photography

Ivan Burlakov

Director of Photography

Serik Beyseu

Editor

Sergei Selyanov

Producer

Bakur Bakuradze

Producer

Natalya Smirnova

Executive Producer

Bakur Bakuradze

Writer

Pavel Novikov

Production Design

Sergey Tyrin

Production Design

Nadezhda Vasileva

Costume Design

Tatyana Patrakhaltseva

Costume Design

Elena Lukyanenko

Costume Design

Klim Shipenko

Director

Alexey Chupov

Writer

Natalya Merkulova

Writer

Aleksey Samolyotov

Writer

Klim Shipenko

Writer

Nikita Gankin

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Yuliya Mishkinene

Executive Producer

Anton Zlatopolskiy

Producer

Ivan Burlyaev

Original Music Composer

Nikita Lopatnikov

Digital Compositor

Vladyslav Driuchyn

Digital Compositor

Dmitriy Noskov

Original Music Composer

Svyatoslav Kurashov

Original Music Composer

Mariya Sergeenkova

Lead Editor

Reviews

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⭐ 6/10

September 8, 2022

Salyut-7 is packed with such sublime imagery that it would be possible to enjoy it without subtitles or knowledge of the Russian language — which is actually not a bad idea, because the plot has been exaggerated to such an extent that Baron Münchhausen himself wouldn’t buy it.

In a nutshell, after contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Fyodorov (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) and Viktor Alyokhin (Pavel Derevyanko) are sent to try to commandeer the ship and repair it. The ensuing docking attempts, edited by Mariya Sergeenkova almost like a mating dance, provide the film's best sequences. Meanwhile, Sergey Astakhov and Ivan Burlakov's cinematography captures the most impressive and, dare I say, convincing outer space scenes I’ve seen since Ad Astra (which was actually released two years later).

Salyut-7's visual prowess, however, isn't limited to the vastness of space, and indeed thrives equally well in the confined spaces within the ship. While in orbit, the film is in general a feast for the viewer's eyes. The problem is that the filmmakers spend too much time on Earth manufacturing unnecessary and unlikely conflicts.

The mission is a race against time for two reasons. The first has to do with the idea that NASA is carrying out a mission to recover Salyut-7 and steal Soviet secrets with the space shuttle Challenger (pre-disaster, of course), bringing the station to Earth within the shuttle's cargo bay.

This premise would be fine for a James Bond flick, but here it only manages to detract from the gravity, if you will, of the situation. The second reason is the limited amount of oxygen, the low temperature, and other conditions that Vladimir and Viktor have to deal with, forcing them to repair the station in a few days if they don't want to die of hypoxia and/or hypothermia.

The real-life mission actually lasted 112 days (over three months), and the astronauts wore warm clothes (in the movie they don't even have gloves). Many other events are wildly hyperbolized or shamelessly made up, while others are just plain clichés — like the guy in the control center getting all thoughtful while everyone else celebrates.

It's a shame, because Salyut-7 is, aesthetically speaking a perfect illustration of the apocryphal anecdote according to which NASA spent a lot of money developing a pen that could write in zero gravity ((feel free to substitute 'Nasa' with 'Hollywood' and 'pen that could write in zero gravity' with 'CGI')) while the Soviets simply used pencils.

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Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$13,767,037

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Salyut-7 (2017)

Bakur Bakuradze, Alexey Chupov, Natalya Merkulova, Aleksey Samolyotov, Klim Shipenko

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