Mira (2022 film)

Plot

Fifteen-year-old Valeria 'Lera' Arabova lives in Vladivostok with her mother Svetlana, stepfather Boris, and eight-year-old step-brother Yegor. She has pyrophobia from a childhood elevator fire that also led to her parents' divorce. Her father, flight engineer Valery Arabov, is aboard the space station Mira and uses satellite technology and AI to monitor her, though they remain estranged. Arabov's team observes a meteor shower expected to be harmless, but it changes trajectory and impacts the station and regions of Far East Russia, Korea, Japan, and Australasia.

Lera survives the blast and is hit by a van carrying a couple and their cat; they drive her to a hospital before crashing. She takes shelter in a toy store but becomes trapped. Arabov, the sole survivor on the station, restores power and contacts Lera through a baby monitor teddy bear. He guides her to rescue Yegor, who had gone to watch the meteor shower from a nearby building, using traffic lights and other devices to navigate the unstable structure.

Production

The disaster film Mira, directed by Dmitry Kiselyov, stars Veronika Ustimova and Anatoliy Beliy in the lead roles. Produced by Mars Media Entertainment alongside AMedia with backing from the Cinema Foundation, the project had a budget of 540 million rubles and received a single funding installment of 187 million rubles. In the summer of 2022, the production companies sought an additional 163 million rubles from the foundation. Principal photography took place from early August to early November 2021 across Moscow, Moscow Oblast, and Vladivostok. Visual effects were created by Main Road Post, known for their work on Attraction and Invasion. The first teaser trailer debuted on October 24, 2022. Mira premiered worldwide on December 22, 2022, distributed by Cinema Atmosphere, with a Russian premiere on December 18 at 19:00 Moscow time.