Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 10/23/2007
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 71 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Facets
With his docudrama
Interkosmos, American writer-director
Jim Finn creates a testament to an apocryphal East German 1970s space project.
Finn intercuts recreations of phony newsreel footage (passed off as the real thing) with elaborate musical numbers. The farcical premise has the Communist DDR - historically, a close ally of
Leonid Brezhnev - striving to colonize the moons of Jupiter and Saturn ahead of its capitalist enemies from the U.S. Against this backdrop, the director posits the burgeoning romance of a male and female cosmonaut -
Falcon (
Finn) and
Seagull (
Nadini Khaund) - who at one point burst into a flamboyant rendition of
"The Trolley Song" from
Meet Me in St. Louis. The structure itself is loose, freewheeling and episodic;
Finn tints the images orange to create a nostalgic feel throughout.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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