The film is based on the real events of space rescue during the Cold War. "Salute 7 (Салют-7, also the original title of the film)" was the last space station in the Soviet-era salute program. In 1985, "Salute No. 7" suddenly lost contact with the ground control center. The Western camp took the opportunity to make a lot of reports, exaggerating the Soviet Union's inability to control its own space station, which is about to threaten human security. At this time, if the space station is blasted, it will damage the image of the Soviet Union and lead to major safety accidents as the West wishes. Needless to say, the cost of this "20 tons of scrap iron" is lost. In short, the Soviet government sent Zanibekov and Savineh, the most experienced astronauts at the time, into space to find problems and fix the space station.
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Thus, many difficulties were opened one by one.
First, the film shows the nerve-wracking first manual docking in space. From a technical point of view, this docking is considered to be the most complex docking in space history. After calculation, the two senior astronauts made a gambling connection, and they were successful.
Next, opening the capsule, the two astronauts discovered a thick layer of ice. It takes two days to heat the space station. Under those low temperature conditions, the two people could last for less than a week. The ground control center also had two opinions, one returned immediately, and the other continued to work. There is also a Soviet-style (cold) joke here. The leader said, are the Soviet people still afraid of frost? In fact, the pilot was freezing with a fever and still insisting on repair work.
The third challenge is that after heating the space station, the weightless water floats around. The job of the two at this time is to suck up the water so that they can work. Later, it was found that the problem was not in the cabin, so one person went out to check and found that the sensor was broken.
Misfortunes do not come singly, the spacecraft catches fire, and another astronaut in the cabin is burned.
At this time, the Soviet Union was under pressure from the Western camp. The United States reported that the Soviet astronauts were sure to die, and sent their own space shuttle to prepare for docking. The Soviet Union, which was worried about technology being stolen by the West, naturally refused.
Ultimately, the Soviet ground center made a decision to abandon the space station. But there is only enough oxygen for one astronaut to return home, and the other will die when the space station is shot down. The loyal astronauts refused to give up their companions, showing the greatness of human nature. The two decided to survive, and smashed the sensor cover out of the cabin. Under the extreme cold of the space station flying to the back of the earth, the metal became fragile. Finally, the two smashed the bent sensor and miraculously repaired the solar charging system.
At this time, the sensational scene was that the American spacecraft also circled around the Soviet space station. The astronauts from the hostile camps during the Cold War saluted each other and went beyond ideology. After all, the human world is so small from the perspective of the universe.
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This space disaster giant restores the recognized miracle of space rescue in human history. The beautiful vastness of space and the Soviet space station and the sense of weightlessness in the film are well worth seeing.
In addition to the main story, there are also several interesting places, the movie did not render too much.
The first is the very famous sighting of the "Angel" event:
In July 1985, shortly before the film's space disaster, the navigators of Salyut Seven encountered a group of "angels." They saw seven massive humanoids, winged, with a halo of mist, glowing brightly. The atheistic Soviet government was of course very dissatisfied with the reports of the astronauts.
There is no "angel" scene in the film, only the astonished expressions of the astronauts under the blue light are used to express the incident.
Fireworks No. 7 Smuggled Armenian Brandy:
At that time, the Soviet Union had a prohibition on alcohol, but a small amount of alcohol was still good for astronauts in outer space and relieved stress. There are various ways to smuggle alcohol on the spacecraft. For example, if you lose weight a week before liftoff, you can hide the corresponding weight of brandy and pickles in the spacesuit and take it to space.
The scene where the two astronauts drink alcohol in the movie is also very interesting. In a state of weightlessness, the two of them shake out a drop of wine and suck it out again.
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In addition, I don't know if there is also a factual basis. In the movie, a small strong was smuggled in from the space station. The astronauts jokingly called it the third astronaut. In view of the identity of the earth fellow, they did not shoot it to death.
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Russia, which has inherited the legacy of the Soviet space race, only used a budget of 40 million to produce this special effects film that competes with Hollywood. It is said that there is a 40-minute scene in it, and Maozi actually went to the space station to shoot it simply and rudely. In fact, movies have always been a part of national strength and ideological propaganda. I really hope that my motherland, which has the money to make big scenes, can also make some space-themed films at some point.
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