Opération lune (2002) (TV)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

William Karel

Release Date:

16 October 2002 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Documentary

Plot Keywords:

Moon Landing | Mockumentary | Mock Documentary | Apollo 11

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Stanley Kubrick	...	Himself (archive footage)
Richard Nixon	...	Himself (archive footage)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Buzz Aldrin	...	Himself
Loïs Aldrin	...	Herself
Tad Brown	...	David Bowman
Lawrence Eagleburger	...	Himself
Farouk Elbaz	...	Himself
Alexander Haig	...	Himself
Jan Harlan	...	Himself
Richard Helms	...	Himself
Jeffrey Hoffman	...	Himself
Bernard Kirschoff	...	Dimitri Muffley
Henry Kissinger	...	Himself
Christiane Kubrick	...	Herself
Barbara Rogers	...	Eve Kendall
John Rogers	...	Ambrose Chapel
Donald Rumsfeld	...	Himself
Jacquelyn Toman	...	Maria Vargas
Vernon Walters	...	Himself
David Winger	...	Jack Torrance

Also Known As:

Dark Side of the Moon (Australia) (International: English title)

Runtime:

52 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Company:

Arte France

Trivia:

The origin of the fictitious characters' names: - Jack Torrance - from The Shining (1980) - David Bowman - from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Dimitri Muffley - from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (a combination of the names of the two presidents) - Eve Kendall - from North by Northwest (1959) - Marla Vargas - from The Barefoot Contessa (1954) - Ambrose Chapel - centre of the spies' activity in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - W.A. Koenigsberg - a play on Woody Allen's (W.A.) real name, Allen Stuart Koenigsberg. George Kaplan - from North by Northwest (1959)

Goofs:

Continuity: A retired KGB general is introduced as 'General Vernon Walters - Former CIA Director' - despite the obvious voice-over translation of his comments in Russian.

Movie Connections:

References North by Northwest (1959)

CIA admits on fake NASA footage

The documentary is not about the discussion if the moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz is fake. The've been there all right. However there is no actual evidence because of defect equipment. To avoid this setback in 'the race for space' the CIA have used Stanley Kubrick's studios in London to make a few moments of footage which was later on showed to the world as if they where original.

This movie shows the world how emergency footage was already shot before the landing and used to impress the world. The information given by such people as Rumsfeld is to me unbelievable..

Watch this for start to end, and don't judge based on a few minutes as sarastro... Du taget fejl min Ven, den her film er bare ved!