An actor once tried there was one, yes, at first was an actor, they had to train us to be a cameraman, they probably realized that it was useless, they started looking for a healthier person, it started when, here i am, i was exactly 3 years ago, even well, a little more even than 3 years ago, actually i got this call from konstantin lvovich, eduard ilayan and Dmitry Olegovich himself, who invited me, they said, we have this idea, and when, like, how many years ago, well , probably in the twentieth year, we heard, probably, do you remember when tom cruz said that he had reached an agreement with elon musk, he will shoot a film on the iss, which he buys for two months. Literally a few weeks later, no, he said that he would fly on the crudragon, yes, but he would fly to the station, he would film there, there were also conversations before musk that he wanted to fly, and there was talk about an alliance, well, i know that one the story that there were conversations was not exact, we Just Announced it on the same day, well, i dont know with a difference, at 10 00, that we would already be there, it was exactly 3 years ago , i think it was september 15th, if im not mistaken, a year, well, 3 years ago, in the twentieth year, yes, i say, the year we started like this means you after everything was announced, well, the first rumor about it passed, and we also had different opinions there , that is, someone laughed, someone, god forbid there how will it all work out, yes, when did you understand that this was serious, we were kind of serious when the selection of actresses began, i think no, i think when they showed me the paper that was signed by the president , it was in january, thats when i saw his signature on this paper and on the letter that head of roscosmos and first, after that, i realized that this machine cannot be stopped, and when the texts were already distributed and we began to study them and try to advise, and on weekends , the concept also appeared that after all, this was inevitable, probably that we were trying to make some changes in scenarios that this cannot happen, such an injury cannot be sustained on the iss , you know, a feature film, it s a feature film, not a documentary, that there may be some percentage of truth in it, but this percentage. Must be big, well the element of fiction should be small so that the viewer is interested in watching, but it is a feature film, it obeys the laws of drama, audience interest, those people who make claims, be it doctors, astronauts, i dont know, any other people about whom the film is made , professionals in their industry, about which you listen, and if lets say you, well, god forbid, didnt get through, would you entrust the filming to us, lets say, in some form . And here the question is, we were talking at first, at first i wasnt there, me at first, well, that is, there wasnt this second chair, but initially there was one chair, and then really, when the script was still being invented, and who came up with it . Well, i came up with it together with bakur bakuradze, and then we proceeded from the introductory notes that we have, you came up with it when they said that we need to fly and film in space, or when you had it a long time ago, you hatched this idea there , i dont know about school, no, no, look, by that time i had already filmed fireworks 7, so my cosmic , sort of kinetographic path, it began from the fireworks, there was an application, there was, there was an idea then, it was Dmitry Olegovichs idea , and there was even a small, i dont know, synopsis, we call it, but its not bad, it was just a movie, which is completely unnecessary was to shoot in space, and i liked the idea of coming up with a film that could only be shot in space, well, or it would have been, it would have been, it would have been clear that this was why it was necessary to fly, fly, why, why did you flew there, that is, i proceeded precisely from the fact that lets try in this reality and invent further, so then the idea was born that an ordinary person suddenly receives Something Like i received a call then from kosilvo, Dmitry Olegovich and eduard ilayan, they said, listen, how do you like this idea . That is, such a similar call, so i started to further promote this idea and thus it turned into this scenario, there was no second chair then and just then the conversation was going on, listen, well, its not a fact that it will happen, that it can be removed if will only fly actress, then it was already roughly understood that this was a doctor, i said that it was unlikely that something could be filmed that would be believed, mind you, no, well, i heard such a phrase, if only an actress flies, then it will not be just rubbish, there will be some kind of firewood, so the task became to find a person who would film it professionally, a great director in this sense, konstantin listened to my arguments , heard and knew, being, in fact, a person from cinema, he knows how films are made, and this is how he convinced roscosmos that films cannot be made without a director nowhere, well, in general, so to speak, roscosmos heard the filmmakers and agreed to have the director fly, and in fact, then it became clear that this would be a fullfledged film that we would try to make, and it had a chance to be like a big movie. Who advised you to take a rugby helmet, explain it to me, this is not what i came up with, this is what i came up with for one simple reason, i generally use this layout when i walked, you understand, i walked, the stual knocked his head when he walked with a camera, and i could imagine that will be when ill just fly back look into the lens and there will be situations when no one can back me up behind me at least once, no, well, ive helped out many times , i didnt, considering the climate change, we have a 90 cm hatch there, it would have to be stretched there, he i understood that there was a hatch in the back, and you were testing the helmet, no, we are some complex things , there were a lot of things now, yes, its you who remember complex shots, and i even in simple shots, when you just hit your head, its clear distinguished exactly, of course, it wasnt even necessary flying, of course, i knocked a lot, and clung with my legs a lot, its good that i had these training pants, which actually level out. In any case, it was hard, because i remember how lim closed the windows, because this shadow the situation changes very quickly, there is no time for a double, again the noise of the fans is constant, but how did you get away from the noise of the fans, i dont know anymore, technically it was possible to somehow remove it or not, the noise of the fans is the least difficult , which actually was there, well of course, we didnt think that someday it would be pure sound, pure sound. This is how we are sitting now, talking, we wont go and revoice ourselves later, it will be recorded clean, yes, we wont go, but it was immediately clear that the sound wouldnt be clear, that later there would be dubbing, so the noise of the fans from the point of view of the quality of sound recording, i didnt even Pay Attention at all, it was just important for me that we then at least hear what we say, what you say, so that later we can revoice it, but about the light they told you in advance, there is no light, there was such a story with the light that we are on a model. Worked, you have a lot of light at the station, namely artificial, and it is constantly, and it is constantly on, that is, in preparation, anton remembers, we walked through all these modules and understood which, which lights we would turn off, because that a movie, a movie, is when you have, well, of course, its a play of light , its an atmosphere, the atmosphere in a movie is everything, but when you have brightly turned on lights everywhere, then theres no atmosphere, you need that. For work, in order to see everything, in cinema you need a certain mystery, a certain depth, drama, chiaroscuro and all that, so , if you remember, i turned off 80 of the light in all these models, like twilight, it was impossible to prepare for the portholes, for the light from the portholes, so always when we discussed this light from the portholes during preparation on the ground, it was always like, well, as a last resort, just close them and take them off, naturally. In the end we closed them very little, because after all somehow i figured out how to integrate this light from the portholes into the scene, in the end it worked, although, well , remember, we had to wait for the light when i said, well, listen, lets now kind of wait for the light and then continue filming, that is, it was like that, thats why no, these are all the difficulties that i understood that they would be, well, we coped with the situation on the spot, well, it was a pity for you to leave the cameras, it was a pity to leave the cameras, it was a very pity, my beloved. So i said for a long time, let me at least put you on my knees, at least take the lens with you, i say, well, you cant give away the ground, its caused by a soft landing, its dangerous for life, unfortunately , the astronauts who are there now shoot so little with it , although its a powerful, cool instrument, well , i think maybe well have to wait for some the next one, the continuation of the film, yes, then there will be no need to drag it out, everything is already there, everything will be there, yes, the stories and with me today are the heroes of russia, the cosmonauts, oleg navitsky and anton shkaplerov. Your colleagues, thats when they found out that you would fly into space. Differently they probably related to this, well, no one said, like, the climate is normal, in fact , you can make a film on earth, why take risks, listen, colleagues were divided into two opinions, some said you were crazy, i would never in my life didnt agree to this and so on, but others said it was cool, i say it again, you, i took it already on the ground, that is, i wouldnt care if i became uninterested on the ground, if the next step for me was some kind of yes, if they told me that there was no chance to fly to kos, you should take off another space a film like this, for example, only on earth, its not a fact that i would do it, that is, but when there is a small chance, you immediately grab onto it, of course not, you know, with me, i said that, but i have intuition and some kind of premonition, and as soon as i received this call, i knew that we would fly , so i had a feeling that thats it, i feel it, weve just been looking for a backup for you for a long time, well, you understand , that this is a formality, one came, the second, the third, does not pass due to health. I didnt have the slightest doubt that i would fly, that is, how i wish i could tell you, and whats more, it was right away, it was possible without an understudy , we would probably have wasted money on him, although hes a very good guy, its not good, he helped me technically, lets do it this way, lyosha dudin is a very good technical specialist, a professional, and there are very few of them in our industry , so to prepare me technically is also a lot of work, which we did together with him at the bayikan, who also helped us prepare very technically, together with the cameraman and director of the film boris litovchenko, who also came up with the lighting schemes together with him, well, that is, this is all this one way or another, the team that surrounded me, that prepared me, you remember, well, on irik it helped you that you finished the Camera Department after all , and not just a director, thats exactly how it is, as we say, a techie who became a meme , im on the contrary, im a creative person, a creative one, as it were, studied a creative profession and there was a need for me, i felt the need to study the technical side of a camera, so as not to farm out to a person to another and to whom you are not a fact that he has different eyes, another person has different eyes, he may have a different vision, he may see the world differently, when he tells you, you cant film like that anymore, no, you can, excuse me, i know, that s exactly it, thats exactly it, oleg, i thought who chose all the equipment for the flight, we re doing it together. We weighed all the pros and cons of different cameras and it turned out that this is a compact camera and takes pictures, not quite compact, compared to others, it is the most, in general, it is compact and at the same time giving such a quality, which you approached more in this way, in terms of selection for cameras , for example, or for personal belongings, oh, i also wanted to take something of my own, listen, well, personal things, for technical cameras it was important to take everything, that is, in the profession everything it was equally important to take everything, cream, in this kilogram that we are entitled to, for example, what did you take, maybe theres something supernatural there, i didnt take it, i took underpants, by the way, extra ones, i took underpants, and tshirts, that i took some tshirts, we are moving on to traditions, well, tradition is a tshirt, that is we remember, we still have some traditions. They brought a small mug and returned it, no, your tshirt, which you wear on the first day, yes, the first day is a tshirt, i shoot all my films in this tshirt, we took it, i also shot in it, yes, that is, some rules were observed my rituals are personal, i took photographs in general, then it was generally a fairly standard set, basically yes, well, you remember at the bike tour how we checked all these technical equipment with cameras, with all the tripods, clamps, flash drives, something for us. That we had to, no, we had to squeeze something, remove it, but we remember something , we called moscow to urgently get it on the next plane, because without this it was impossible to remove it, thanks to roscosmos , they responded to our requests in a comprehensive manner, its true, its very quickly, really, listen, when we started, we were still ready, we were actually in preparation , but we flew away, well, not on camera. We just read the text several times, you have some doubts arose about our acting abilities, we didnt go through the casting, i understood that you would run into people who are not an actor, of course, i understood all this as a wall, well, listen, no, well , of course, i was afraid of all this, these fears were there, but on the other hand , but on the other hand, in general, takes , you had to play, its already good, you need one more, and three, yes, three more, three more, then. I stopped believing, everything , everything is fine, everything is great, it worked out, youre already exhaling, everything went to unharness, no, wait, guys, one more take to scream, yes, thats it, thats mine my technique, this is how i shoot on the ground, i had these. But on the other hand, the roles were written in such a way that you, by and large , would play yourself in the proposed circumstances , what is called according to stanislavsky, you did not play some other person at all, in general, at the beginning, when i read this, i actually played a person, some cosmonaut, didnt say anything, i didnt have a single word , didnt say anything, theres just another commander, an astronaut, thats all, and then he forced me to teach more, well, the script is a living organism, its never, well, i always. Im finishing, reworking, adapting, well get to know each other later, i understood that you were talking like that, you need to be in the scene so that you say it, i understood that i wont change your organics, that is, one way or another you will be for such a deadline obviously wouldnt have changed, you do, thats why i actually structured all this work with you so that you were as natural as possible in the circumstances that the script offered you, well, you did everything very well and the viewer actually appreciated it, thats thanks to you to you. Lets cinema and a lot is enough there are examples in world cinema when nonprofessionals play the main roles, because they are simply suitable for these roles, or the script is written in such a way that it is enough to just pull out of this person his Natural Organic nature, or there is simply no choice when you arrive at the station , but there is also no choice, and that too, i knew that there would be no choice at the very beginning, i knew that i would not have. The question of casting astronauts, i knew that you would fly, you would fly, and petya, that is, everything, i knew mine, it was a given, and then i am with this its a given that ive already worked with you, i have good experience, i studied at an acting studio , and i saw how you can work with people who are not actors, and how to get them out of uh, then well, listen, every person is capable of playing a role one. In this life, its true, that is, you no longer invite us to be the one who lives , i just know that, in principle, this person can play himself, its just a question of the technique of work, why there are so many takes, so that later so that you can mount one replica of this take, another from another take, a third from the third take , that is, this is what these takes are actually made for, its not because everything is very bad, but because sometimes you need to have a choice later, precisely because we have we had the opportunity, and you, even reluctantly, went for this huge number of takes that i did, it was thanks to this that in the end it was possible to put this puzzle together and the viewer believed you, and at least some image of the station remained in your head, because that as far as i remember, you worked from morning to evening, i worked, filmed, filmed, filmed, then late at night i dumped all the materials, at least you had something left in your head, some evenings, about dinners. It was a movie, it was just real, i understood that klim he didnt see anything, if you say they landed the ship 3 hours before the launch, yes, then we couldnt push him in before the descent, well, he didnt see anything, i saw everything, in fact, nogradi , well, i dont do it all the time, sometimes i did this from the camera, i remember the last dinner, we were still eating, talking, the wedge was just tumbling, he was looking at something through the porthole, yes, he felt some kind of relaxation, why am i asking, did something remain, some kind of image of the station, remained, yes, remained, i miss it, because it was precisely because of this , because 12 days is not enough, well, it seems to me that even 20 would not be enough for me, well, i dont know , you understand, you last for six months, and someone for a year 200, im 200 200 years, it is clear that you are already for this, so dont come, so that you can shoot a film for 10, 10 days, a series, why a film, a series, a series, a series, listen, children are born, he, all this, quarreled, got married, it seems to me that i would have found something to do, but i dont know, well, it seemed to me that a month a month was what we needed, but do you remember where you slept . Well, of course, i remember, i slept2, there was a cabin, yes, i had a whole compartment, a vip sleeping bag, a vip cabin, a vip cabin, with two huge spacesuits on the sides with two portholes with two portholes no, no, i had excellent conditions, im not complaining,