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Houston, We Have a Problem

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In March of 1961, Yugoslavia sold its secret space program to the United States. Two months later, Kennedy announced that the United States was ready to go to the Moon.

Critics Reviews

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Jessica Kiang Variety 07/15/2016
What little fun this mockumentary offers depends on falling for its far-fetched premise about America being scammed by the Yugoslav space program. Go to Full Review Nick Schager Village Voice 04/27/2016
No matter how valid [its] theory might be, there are surely more compelling ways to offer it than via a one-note, 88-minute-long joke. Go to Full Review Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa 09/01/2020
[Filmmaker iga] Virc deftly combines multiple approaches and... builds a film that explores the nostalgia that both Yugoslav peoples (now Slovenians, Serbs, Croats, Bosnians...) and Americans have for what their countries (used to) represent. Go to Full Review Rachel Brook One Room With A View 03/13/2019
4/5
However falsely, this is an illuminating masterclass in documentary and meta-documentary making. What it lacks in aesthetic verve it delivers in sheer daring and theoretical acumen. Go to Full Review Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film 08/07/2016
3/5
It's amazing how much the human interest story - at least initially - convinces, showing even when we are ready to dismiss something presented as scientific evidence, we are still ready to swallow a lie if it comes with an emotionally satisfying coating. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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02/11/2021 Thought provoking, nostalgic, and very well executed. See more 02/24/2017 A silly horrible story about media, lies, spies and Colbert Report. It's like a play of a parallel world, where Buzz Aldrin moans that Moonlanding was real, but was still just a plagiarism, where The Rights Stuff is just a Indiana Jones movie without no history, where everyone can tell a lie, but no one cares about the truth. See more 12/23/2016 interesting documentary See more 10/14/2016 With a great blend of fact and fiction this "documentary" really shows how media can quite easily construct our reality and make us believe that what they show us is the absolute truth. See more 09/29/2016 interesen dokumentarec za tajnata Jugoslovenska svemirska programa koja Tito mu ja prodava na Kenedi...tuka se faktite,a posle moze da se razgovara za ova i ona sto sleduva vo zemjata koja poveke ja nema, so saati... e pa trazili ste - gledajte! See more 09/26/2016 hahahaah Istina boli Ili samo Americka istina je Istina :D hahahahahahah See more Read all reviews
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Ziga Virc

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Ziga Virc

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Movie Info

Synopsis In March of 1961, Yugoslavia sold its secret space program to the United States. Two months later, Kennedy announced that the United States was ready to go to the Moon.
Director
Ziga Virc
Screenwriter
Ziga Virc
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
German
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 20, 2017
Runtime
1h 25m