Richard Branson is taking a big risk going to space - CNN

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6 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ended up being the very first human to orbit Earth, making Moscow an essential win in the Cold War, Russia is again in a space race with Washington. This time though the stakes are rather glitzier. On October 5, among Russia's most renowned starlets, 36-year-old Yulia Peresild is blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) with movie director Klim Shipenko, 38.

If their strategy forms, the Russians are expected to beat Mission Difficult star Tom Cruise and Hollywood director Doug Liman, who were first to announce their job together with NASA and Space X, the company of billionaire Elon Musk. "I truly desire us to be not just the first however also the very best," Peresild informed AFP, with the clock ticking down to the planned October 5 blast-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

But apart from its grand aspirations, little is known about the movie. Its plot, which has been kept under covers by the team and Russia's area agency, has actually been revealed by Russian media outlets to include a physician dispatched urgently to the ISS to conserve a cosmonaut. Nor has The Call's budget been revealed.

Hinting at the film's aesthetic direction, one huge name on the credit list is Konstantin Ernst, the 60-year-old head of the overtly Kremlin-friendly Channel One television network. Source has actually stage-managed a few of the most essential moments in Russia's recent political history and of President Vladimir Putin's profession: military parades, inaugurations, the opening event of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.

He is not understood for prominence in the movie industry, but rather for commanding a company pestered by stagnancy and corruption-- and for openly sparring with Musk on Twitter. For Rogozin, 57, the movie is a way to project stature as Roscosmos loses ground in technological improvement to United States competitors.