Did you know that Claudie Heinerre would close her eyes every time a Soyuz rocket sent her into space? The story is told by Stéphane Panettiere and his partner Julian Vanlerenberg. The two somewhat crazy Infinity screenwriters went so far as to interview the astronaut – the first French and European to go into space – and spend time with her, accompanied by director Thierry Poirot, who is very involved in this project, in order to gather these kinds of details, making Their story is more believable. Imagine changing the position of the string real detectivenot in Louisiana, but in Kazakhstan, with a touch ofInterstellar. more concretely, Infiniti It begins with the discovery of a body on the roof of a building in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country that has been independent since 1991, but remains within the Russian sphere of influence. And the decapitated body covered with a kind of wax. After DNA analysis, it will be Anthony Kurtz (Lex Shrapnel), an American astronaut. But this is supposed to be in orbit, aboard the ISS. Then begins a bizarre investigation that brings together Isaac Turgon (Daniar Chenov), a stubborn Kazakh policeman, and French astronaut Anna Zarate (Celine Salette), who was fired from the last mission to the International Space Station due to health issues.
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To shoot this series in six episodes, the production team and actors went to shoot last year, during the epidemic, partly in Kazakhstan where the city of Baikonur (36000 inhabitants) is located and which has developed around the cosmos (under Russian management), from where Soyuz bombers took off, but above all 2300 A kilometer from Paris, in Ukraine, conquered by the Russian army, since February 24. “I lived two and a half months in Kyiv, as Celine Salette recalls, in a stupor. We made connections and friendships. To imagine that these people are hiding today on the streets of the Ukrainian capital is repulsive … “ If Ukraine was chosen at that time, it was due to the quality of its teams capable of reconstructing the International Space Station, in great detail, to make actors develop, equipped with cables, in complete safety, in order to reconstruct the typical movements of cosmonauts in weightlessness, and also because Its traces, very present, are from the Soviet era.
Today, despite the fight, the links between Paris and Kev are preserved, but the team can do little, except to receive news, send medicines or basic necessities. As in reality echo, Infiniti It indicates that history, the weight of the past, is still ubiquitous in these areas. Both in the battle of Isaac, the Kazakh policeman insisted on the investigation, despite the obstacles in the hierarchy of orders of the Russian neighbor, but also in the questions surrounding the conquest of space. According to the latest news, according to NASA, cooperation between the United States and Russia continues as usual, despite the tensions associated with the war in Ukraine. The Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to return an American cosmonaut to Baikonur on March 30, after 355 days in space, and two Russian cosmonauts.
Infiniti: Monday, April 4th at 9:10 pm on Channel +
Frederic Rabelle
