Interkosmos
Director: Jim Finn
Starring: Nandini Khaund, Jim Finn, Dean DeMatteis, Goran Milos, Ruediger van den Boom, Bettina Richards, Annika Bruens
Year: 2006
Runtime: 71 mins.
Synopsis: Interkosmos started out in 2003 as a short film about an East German space mission whose communist mascot was the “meerschweinchen” or guinea pig. Planned as a sequel to my film about the capitalist “wustenspringmaus” or gerbil, it began to grow to include a space capsule interior, humans in costume, and a dance number. I wanted the film to look as if I had been allowed to edit audio and film footage from the East German space archives. Many of the scenes are recreations and variations of actual training photos of the cosmonauts. The music is original, but I gave recordings of 70s German pop and international communist songs to the musicians for inspiration. I wanted the energy and idealism of the Marxist left to be a part of the film and to create a communist love story in the process as well as a kind of funeral dirge for a 75-year-old experiment in social and economic engineering. Though the film is made in the style of a 70s documentary, it has the structure of a Hollywood musical. (from the film’s Official Site)
DVD: Facets Multi Media
Official Website: Interkosmos
Reviews: Variety (Jay Weissberg)
The Stranger (Andrew Wright)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Video: Trailer
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