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Salyut-7
Салют-7
2017 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Klim Shipenko
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.
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Russians have great space movies ! Its a shame we do not easily see more of what they produce.
Some references and partial trailers:
"First on the Moon" https://sovietmoviesonline.com/fantastic/pervye-na-lune
"Salyut-7" https://sovietmoviesonline.com/drama/salyut-7
"The Spacewalk" https://sovietmoviesonline.com/adventure/vremya-pervyh
"Baikonur" https://sovietmoviesonline.com/comedy/baykonur
"Gagarin: First in Space" https://sovietmoviesonline.com/adventure/gagarin-pervyy-v-kosmose
There's a Russian movie about this, called Salyut-7. It's basically the Russian Apollo 13.
I won't pretend it's perfect, there's some drama thrown in, but it's well worth watching if you're a space fan. Lots of spaceships and docking and practicalities of living and working in space.
The director is apparently flagged to shoot a movie on the real ISS soon, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_7_(film)
not on this list but the Russian film Salyut-7 is pretty entertaining and has some great orbital shots.
I don't have access to classified military secrets, but you don't think they would build a vehicle that could return 15 tons of payload to earth to retrieve US satellites? US could just build and launch a new satellite easier and cheaper than bring one down to fix only to launch it again.
Obviously there is the movie about Salyut 7 that depicts the shuttle trying to capture the station. Salyut 3 had a machine gun attached to it.
I’ve always been impressed with their successful rescue mission of Salyut 7[0]. And of Salyut program in general [1]. There is also a pretty good Russian dramatized movie about Salyut 7 rescue[2].
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_7 [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_programme [2] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/salyut_7
A russian film is just made on this topic. Here a link with trailers on the page:
http://ctb.ru/en/films/salyut-7/