The lunar conspiracy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The lunar conspiracy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Frickel |
| script | Thomas Frickel |
| production | Thomas Frickel |
| music | Dietmar Staskowiak |
| camera | Thomas Frickel |
| cut | Thomas Frickel |
| occupation | |
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The Moon Conspiracy is a German documentary film by director Thomas Frickel from 2011 .
action
Dennis Mascarenas , chief reporter for the German-speaking American television channel DDC-TV, is supposed to find out what the Germans are planning to do with the moon. Starting with the question of who the moon actually belongs to, with each new interview he gets deeper into a parallel world of esotericism and conspiracy theories on his research journey about initially harmless and sometimes also purely commercial varieties of belief in the moon , until he finally came across the extreme world views of right-wing esotericism and - even slightly confused - went to Neuschwabenland to search for the " Reich German bases" supposedly existing there .
The reporter does not show his interlocutors - including Pierre Krebs and Axel Stoll - but listens to them with great seriousness and attentively and lets himself into their hypotheses. Sometimes he asks questions about understanding, but he does not comment or evaluate. In doing so, he elicits frank confessions from the interviewees and gives his viewers the opportunity to develop their own attitude towards these statements.
background
The film is the follow-up film to the code name Dennis , it premiered on June 20, 2010 at the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen. It was released in theaters on April 21, 2011. Several DDC interviews that were not used for the film are circulating on the Internet as so-called "outtakes".
At the beginning of December 2011, the production company started a crowdfunding campaign to release the film on a double DVD with a booklet and 209 minutes of bonus material (outtakes, making-of scenes, uncut interviews, etc.). In addition to the DVD, depending on the amount of the donation, one could acquire other special features such as film posters, props and "land" on the moon of the Lunar Embassy shown in the film . The largely unabridged interview passages of the bonus material show that the documentary scenes of the lunar conspiracy are in no way distorted or overdrawn. The DVD was released on June 25, 2012. It is deliberately not available in stores, but only directly from the producer.
In a podcast interview, director Thomas Frickel said that filming began in 2005. All recordings were shot on 16 mm film ; each interview partner took around two to three hours of raw material. The total cost of the film was between 340,000 and 350,000 euros.
Awards
German Film and Media Rating (FBW) 2011
- Predicate valuable
literature
- Markus Kompa: The Moon Conspiracy ( Memento from September 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Telepolis, September 22, 2012. Retrieved the same day.
Web links
- The moon conspiracy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Interview with Thomas Frickel about the film