Iron Sky: The Coming Race
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| German title | Iron Sky: The Coming Race |
| Original title | Iron Sky: The Coming Race |
| Country of production | Finland , Germany , Belgium |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Timo Vuorensola |
| script | Dalan Musson |
| production |
Oliver Damian , Peter De Maegd , Tom Hameeuw , Tero Kaukomaa , Timo Vuorensola |
| music |
Laibach Sunrise Avenue (theme song) |
| camera | Mika Orasmaa |
| cut | Joona Louhivuori |
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Iron Sky: The Coming Race is a science fiction comedy by the Finnish director Timo Vuorensola . It is the continuation of the first part Iron Sky (2012). Like its predecessor, the film was mainly financed by crowdfunding . The inspiration for this film is again the conspiracy theory of a Vril society . In Germany, the film was to be shown for the first time on February 15, 2018 as part of the Berlinale . After several postponements since 2016, the premiere finally took place on January 16, 2019 in Finland.
prehistory
The film ties in with the plot of the first part, when the Nazis from the moon carried out an invasion of the earth and then there was a nuclear war on earth. At that time, the President of the United States of America had been evacuated to Antarctica, from where she went into the interior of the earth.
action
More than 20 years after the nuclear war, the earth's surface is still practically uninhabitable. The last people had saved themselves at the time on the former lunar base of the Nazis, where a hierarchically structured society has now emerged. While the majority of the people are starving on the increasingly poorly supplied basis, the ruling class has subscribed to a sectarian religion of "jobsism", the worship of Apple founder Steve Jobs .
Obi, daughter of the colony leader Renate, discovers that the former lunar Nazi leader Wolfgang Kortzfleisch is still living on the lunar base. He reveals to her that he is a reptilian , never-aging alien (a " Vril ") who landed on earth with a large spaceship crew during the time of the dinosaurs. The extraterrestrials had purposefully contributed to the development of the apes into an intelligent species. In historical times, individual Vrils took on a human appearance and intervened in history as violent leaders. During the Second World War, Kortzfleisch himself fled to the moon from his brother who remained on earth when he appeared as Adolf Hitler. The Vrils live inside the hollow earth, to which they retreated after the nuclear war of the lunar Nazis, and live there from an energy source in the form of a holy grail. Kortzfleisch wants to take revenge on his brother, while the interior of the earth is interesting as a new refuge for the lunar colony on the edge of existence.
When the Russian tinkerer Sasha lands on the moon base with a makeshift lunar Nazi spaceship that has crashed on Earth, the opportunity arises to take a trip back to earth. In addition to Sasha, Obi has to take along the good-natured, dumb muscle man Malcolm and some of the jobists around religious leader Donald. Inside the earth, they encounter a primeval paradise that is ruled by the Vrils. While the jobists are being eaten by the Vrils, Obi manages to steal the Grail and return to the moon base with Sasha and Malcolm. The Adolf-Hitler-Vril, who found out that his hated brother Wolfgang had fled to the moon, then went to the base of the moon riding a Tyrannosaurus Rex named Blondi. After various entanglements, they both die in the end, and Obi and Sasha discover their love for each other.
In a post-credit scene, the camera zooms to Mars, on the back of which you can see a colony of the Soviet Union.
Motifs and background
In the background of an emphatically one-dimensional, clichéd and illogical action SciFi plot with stereotypical roles and sprawling special effects, a large number of religious, pseudo-religious and iconic phenomena are quoted and parodied, including:
- the idea of a superior vril society living inside the earth , which was conceived by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his novel The Coming Race , and its shaping into a conspiracy theory connected with the rise of the National Socialists,
- the Xenu myth contained in the Scientology doctrine , according to which humanity owes its existence to an extraterrestrial intervention 75 million years ago,
- the iconic adoration of Steve Jobs and his pure white Apple aesthetic,
- visual quotes from Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper painting and the cuboid, black monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 film : A Space Odyssey
Reviews
The film was received largely negatively by the criticism in the German-language media.
“The fact that this film is only fun or even provocative in a few scenes is not only due to the dramatic dry spells or the dry acting. The successor to «Iron Sky» is trying desperately to be really trash, and it is precisely in this diligence that it remains good. "
“The result is a D-Movie mash, often prepared by too many cooks, with too much money, explosions, expected boyish jokes, a chariot race from Ben Hur and really, really bad actors. Everything on purpose. "
“A tasteless, silly and, moreover, far too tame science fiction parody in which one absurd idea follows the next. Allusions from pop culture fizzle out without consequences. (1 of 5 stars) “
“The wild collage of ideas has always been important to the Finnish makers of“ Iron Sky ”. You come from a world where memes are more important than elaborate narratives. An inflated world like that of "Star Wars" is an ideal target for a parodic cross shot, which then goes far beyond the star saga from Lucas, namely in terms of global society and universal history. "
“Iron Sky: 'The Coming Race' takes itself too seriously as a fantasy story on the one hand to draw on its absurd ideas with full power of exploitation. On the other hand, it's so pointless that of course you can't really cheer for the characters. As a satire it lacks poise and as a genre parody it lacks bite and the power of observation. (1 of 5 stars) “
Web links
- Iron Sky: The Coming Race in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official English website
- Official German website
- Iron Sky: The Coming Race at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Iron Sky: The Coming Race . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 186814 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Iron Sky: The Coming Race . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Iron Sky The Coming Race. Retrieved February 6, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ NZZ: "Iron Sky 2": Hitler on the Tyrannosaurus Rex is not yet Trash. Accessed on March 25, 2019.
- ↑ Standard: "Iron Sky 2: The Coming Race": Nazi trash with dinosaurs. Accessed on March 25, 2019.
- ^ Film service: Iron Sky: The Coming Race.Retrieved March 25, 2019.
- ↑ FAZ: When Adolf Hitler rides the Tyrannosaurus.Retrieved on March 25, 2019.
- ↑ Film starts: Iron Sky 2: The Coming Race - The moon Nazis are running out of breath.Retrieved on March 25, 2019.