The filming continued as the crew exited the station, boarded their capsule, then landed on a chilly Sunday morning in flat Kazakh grasslands. Astronaut recovery teams, a sizable film crew, and even Dmitri Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, made for an unusually large crowd at the landing site.

“No one should be looking into the camera,” one producer at the landing site yelled to the bustling crowd that swarmed the capsule. “Everybody remove their masks, thank you.”

As Russian officials hoisted the crew out of the MS-18 capsule, other personnel scrambled to lay down a tarp and prepare the film’s next set. A camera mounted in a stabilization rig slowly approached Mr. Novitsky, back in Earth’s gravity after 191 days on the station, as he was receiving a typical post-landing check by medical staff.

“Guys, please, let us do some shooting,” a producer shouted as cameramen positioned themselves for a shot in front of Ms. Peresild. “Please, do not do any filming on your smartphones. Do not take any videos, because right now, this is actually the future end of the movie,” the producer said, according to a translator on video being streamed live by both NASA and Roscosmos.

“Take!” yelled a man who appeared to be film’s on-site director. The crew filmed at least four takes of a scene where an actor greeted Mr. Novitsky, then walked to a smiling Ms. Peresild and kissed her hand. In one take, Ms. Peresild looked to Mr. Novitsky and winked with a smile.

Few details about the plot of “The Challenge” have been announced. But drama on the station turned real on Friday when it was tilted out of its position in orbit during a test of the thrusters on the capsule that ferried the film crew home to Earth. Mr. Novitsky had been testing out the engines, Roscosmos said, but they fired longer than expected, according to a NASA statement. The station, which is the size of a football field, was tilted 57 degrees out of position, according to Russian mission control officials quoted by Interfax, a Russian news agency.

The incident sprang Russian and NASA officials into action, and they corrected the station’s positioning within 30 minutes. It was the second such emergency since July, when Russia’s new Nauka module erroneously fired its thrusters, shifting the station one and a half revolutions — about 540 degrees — before it came to a stop upside down.