Towards the end of World War II the Nazi scientists made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity. From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base was to build a powerful invasion fleet and return to take over the Earth once the time was right.
Now it’s 2018, and it’s the time for the first American Moon landing since the 70′s. Meanwhile the Nazi invasion, that has been over 70 years in the making, is on its way, and the world is goose-stepping towards its doom. The three main characters of the story are Renate Richter (Julia Dietze), Klaus Adler (Götz Otto), and James Washington (Christopher Kirby).
OK so this is crazy film project by a bunch of weird Finnish independent filmmakers. I have been following the development of this movie for almost three years now. I actually went to the shooting in Frankfurt to volunteer as an extra, but they didn't need me at the time and the shoot had to be canceled prematurely because of harsh weather. Too bad, would have been awesome to be actually in this movie.
Anyway this is going to be so hilarious. The story is great, the background, the cast. A lot to the movie has been contributed by the community like just ideas or actual concept art or background material to the story. You can actually google most of the hilarious nazi technology they portrait and you will find absurd conspiracy theory websites about how the nazis invented flying saucers etc
or here the interviews with the lead actors (I already love both of them):
Check out their web site where you can find TONS of photos, videos, stories, blogs etc. Subscribe to their Facebook page and do all the other web2.0 support, tell your friends, and if you really like everything, buy war bonds!
awesome movie, they have some great youtube directors diaries and such that go behind the scenes a bit. they also were the ones who did the Star Wreck films if any of you saw those
The team behind Iron Sky (Energia Productions) also made a Star Trek/Babylon 5 parody called Star Wreck: In the Pirkining. The movie is available for free at the Star Wreck website and although it is in Finnish, there are subtitles in lots of different languages. I wholeheartedly recommend checking the movie out even if you don't know anything about the two sci/fi series in question, as the humor is pretty universal.
Here's a trailer to Energia's earlier full production film, Star Wreck: In the Pirkining.
To the people who think this is going to be the worst movie this year don't misunderstand; Iron Sky will be a tongue-in-cheek comedy film, but it is also the first real professional movie by Energia Productions. Essentially, it's aiming to look like a big budget film, despite being an independent production. Expect it to be much better than something like Scary Movie 2, but it won't be at the level of a high budget Hollywood film.
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