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24 May 2012 7:18 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This futuristic Nazi space movie takes off with some well-researched historical references, but soon veers off the rails into student improvisation

Entertainment grade: D

History grade: Fail

The Soviet and American space programmes of the mid-20th century had their roots in German rocket research of the 1930s, which was partly carried out under the Nazi regime.

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Eagle-eyed readers will notice that Iron Sky is not technically history. It's set in 2018, a date currently in the future. Furthermore, this is a future in which the Nazis, after losing the second world war, escaped to the moon, whence they are now returning in flying saucers to conquer Earth. On the face of it, this film wouldn't appear to concern itself too much with historical accuracy. On the other hand, it does have a tenuous factual basis. Late in the second world war, German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun considered that »

- Alex von Tunzelmann

1 item from 2012