Europe (film 2013)

The film tells about an international space expedition to the sixth satellite of Jupiter, which is equipped with a private corporation. The purpose of the flight is to land on the surface of Europe, where, according to some scientists, there is a possibility of life. The film is a mounted video of the crew, which was obtained after his death, with comments by project managers.

When approaching Europe, due to a solar storm, the crew loses touch with the Earth - the communication module fails. When going out into outer space, James Corrigan dies to save the wounded colleague Andrei Blok to fix the malfunction.

Arriving in Europe covered with ice, the crew lowers a reconnaissance probe into the icy ocean through a pre-drilled well to take water samples, however, for some unknown reason, the probe ceases to respond to signals, having previously recorded a strange flash of light. Andrei also sees another moving flash through the porthole, but they do not believe him because of his slight imbalance.

To collect water samples, Katya Petrovna comes to the surface, who manages to send a signal with the analysis of samples to the ship, and the simplest unicellular organism is found in the water, thereby confirming the hypothesis of the possibility of life in Europe. However, not having time to return to the ship, Katya notices lights of unknown origin under the ice, after which the ice is cracking under it and she begins to quickly go under water and dies.

The remaining four astronauts try to take off from the satellite’s surface, however, when taking off, one of the engines fails, and the ship again falls to the same place, and then begins to slowly sink under the ice. The captain of the ship perishes during landing; Daniel, who went out to fix the devices, disappears. Andrei suggests that Roza turn off life support in order to be able to transfer all received data to Earth, but leave hope for a return. Rose agrees. Andrei mends a connection, he, who was outside, is surrounded by ice lights, and he perishes. Rosa transfers all data and video recordings to the Earth and opens the gateways with the live cameras turned on, in order to see in the last seconds of her life how the ship is filled with water, through which a giant luminous creature with tentacles breaks through.

• Charlto Copley - James Corrigan
• Carolina the Otter - Katya Petrovna ^[3]
• Daniel Wu - William Xu, Ship Commander
• Christian Camargo - Dr. Daniel Luxembourg
• Michael Nyquist - Andrew Block
• Anamaria Marinka - Rose Daske
• Ambet Davidz - Dr. Samantha Unger, Project Manager
• Dan Fogler - Dr. Nikita Sokolov (original Solokov)
• - Dr. Tarik Pamuka
• Neil Degrass Tyson - in the role of himself (archived record)

Filming took place in Brooklyn . The first image from the film was released on February 11, 2012. ^{[4] [5]}

The script was written by Philip Gelatt ^[4] based on the novel by Arthur Clark “ 2061: Odyssey Three ”. The music for the film was written by . ^[6]

The movie premiere took place on August 2, 2013.

The format of the film is the films found : according to history, the film is mounted from videos sent from the other end of the solar system and continuing their narration after an unexpected restoration of communication with the ship.

Before filming, the team studied real videos from the ISS, Shuttle, spacewalks. ^[7] The spacecraft was drawn using computer graphics. Weightlessness was imitated using balls and hanging on ropes. The flooding of the ship was shot on a scale model in a third of the real size. The backlight of Europe imitated bioluminescence ^[7] .

The film "Europe" received mostly positive reviews from film critics. The Rotten Tomatoes portal gave the film a rating of 80% “certified fresh” based on 74 reviews, calling the film a claustrophobic and stylish slow thriller that brought science back to science fiction ^[8] . The Metacritic aggregator assigned a rating of 68 out of 100 based on 25 reviews, which corresponds to a generally favorable level ^[9] .

Variety magazine called the film a reasonably believable and expressively controlled achievement ^[10] , and space.com noted the film as one of the most exciting and realistic images of space exploration since the “ Moon 2112 ” and “ Space Odyssey of 2001 ” ^[11] . Fearnet called the film one of the most sincere, disturbing and fascinating science fiction films of the last few years ^[12] .

The film was nominated for the Ray Bradbury Award by SFWA members ^[13] .

• Official Website
• “Europe” on the Internet Movie Database  
• "Europe" (English) on the site allmovie  
• "Europe" on the Rotten Tomatoes website