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Opération lune

  • Episode aired Oct 16, 2002
  • 52m
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7.6/10
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Opération lune (2002)
Documentary

This hard-hitting mockumentary exposes how Stanley Kubrick faked the 1969 moon landing, with seeming-endorsements from many key players in NASA and the US government.This hard-hitting mockumentary exposes how Stanley Kubrick faked the 1969 moon landing, with seeming-endorsements from many key players in NASA and the US government.This hard-hitting mockumentary exposes how Stanley Kubrick faked the 1969 moon landing, with seeming-endorsements from many key players in NASA and the US government.

  • Director
    • William Karel
  • Writer
    • William Karel
  • Stars
    • Philippe Faure
    • Christiane Kubrick
    • Jan Harlan
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    1.9K
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    • Director
      • William Karel
    • Writer
      • William Karel
    • Stars
      • Philippe Faure
      • Christiane Kubrick
      • Jan Harlan
    • 21User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Philippe Faure
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Christiane Kubrick
    Christiane Kubrick
    • Self
    Jan Harlan
    Jan Harlan
    • Self
    Vernon Walters
    Vernon Walters
    • Self - CIA
    Farouk Elbaz
    Farouk Elbaz
    • Self - NASA
    Jeffrey Hoffman
    • Self - NASA
    John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Yuri Gagarin
    Yuri Gagarin
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Nikita Khrushchev
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Wernher von Braun
    Wernher von Braun
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    David Scott
    • Self - Apollo 15
    David Winger
    • Jack Torrance
    Neil Armstrong
    Neil Armstrong
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Buzz Aldrin
    Buzz Aldrin
    • Self - Apollo 11
    Tad Brown
    • David Bowman - NASA Houston
    Loïs Aldrin
    Loïs Aldrin
    • Self
    Jacquelyn Toman
    • Maria Vargas
    • Director
      • William Karel
    • Writer
      • William Karel
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    8iamjantje

    CIA admits on fake NASA footage

    The documentary is not about the discussion if the moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz is fake. The've been there all right. However there is no actual evidence because of defect equipment. To avoid this setback in 'the race for space' the CIA have used Stanley Kubrick's studios in London to make a few moments of footage which was later on showed to the world as if they where original.

    This movie shows the world how emergency footage was already shot before the landing and used to impress the world. The information given by such people as Rumsfeld is to me unbelievable..

    Watch this for start to end, and don't judge based on a few minutes as sarastro... Du taget fejl min Ven, den her film er bare ved!
    3uscmd

    Mockumentary......not documentary

    Just listen to the section where they talk about "the crew."

    If you believe what you hear........fine. Just do the world a favor and skip having children.

    There are a hundred things on this that are comedic, out and out jokes. The kind of things that frequent MOCKUMENTARIES. THEY ARE AFTER ALL INTENDED TO AMUSE.

    Sad thing is.......those with IQ's of the challanged, watch, or here about it.....and believe its true.
    queerever

    Out of Hand

    It is brilliant in one sense. But then, why bother. People like Kissinger or Rumsfield are the most evil, sinister, worse than the devil, nation building, murderous, imperialists. They were and are. Even though that sounds like some "socialist" student rant - should not be easily discounted even where the student may turn into an old man even more conservative than the media's most evil man, Rupert Murdoch.

    Evil is a bad word, sullied by biblical, fictitious illusions. I am sick of how, in this world, there are men who force an evil agenda, far worse than imagined in the bible, and they get off scot free, even celebrated - going where all the Bourgeois hang out (and make docos together), as if "everything is everything", and we are all friends and it's all a laugh. IF war were over, I wouldn't make this rant. In that case, forgiveness could start.

    Innocent people die, still, while war criminals are treated as heroes and make jokes about fooling everybody, or not. One obvious step further; the main reason those innocent people die is so that some other people pillage the resources to make sick jokes on very expensive film. And here some of them are, having fun at mocking the idea of a conspiracy.

    Hence I use words like the devil or evil, as understatements.

    WAKE UP WORLD. I have been saying this for a long time now. The biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that fact is already more shocking! Kissinger, Rumsfield, et al, are directly guilty for leading, sending men to kill many other men FOR A PARANOIA (WITH FAR LESS BASIS FOR IT) THAN YOUR AVERAGE CONSPIRACY THEORY/IST.

    And here is this Documentary maker, allowing them more fame and the arrogant position to mock. Kissinger didn't feel as though he had enough Vietnamese killed, so why not take part in a mockumentary that uses them as bit parts. They may be kidding, however, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Iraq, etc, etc, etc. the tens of millions murdered, are no joke.

    Certainly an interesting documentary, just as Hitler's men made some interesting experiments on people too.

    A very strange co-incidence for me, that I saw this so very soon after 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' - (apparently NOT a hoax, but I still dilly-dally on that). Said documentary or elaborate hoax is far more interesting and incomparably funnier. Jeez I hate Donald Rumsfield, with politicians like him you can bring back Stalin or Saddam any day.
    6happyreflex

    Not great.

    I have to write something because I can't let the existing review be the only one. This is not a set of anti-American lies passed off as a documentary; it's a straightforward mockumentary. You were supposed to know that.

    That said, the writer gave us a nice little conspiracy theory story, but I really didn't think the results were all that interesting. I felt things turned out kind of stiff in the end. People were too serious about things. Could've used a bit more humor. Forgotten Silver, which comes to mind when discussing this film, shows how a balance could be hit when making a mockumentary of this tone.

    On an unrelated note, Chomsky > Moore.
    9aidanhell

    incredibly clever, fascinating doc

    incredibly clever documentary about the ease with which we are manipulated by the media, and how the media is in turn used as a tool of manipulation. really worth seeing and, watch for clues!

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    • Trivia
      Part of the mockumentary include to some actors playing characters referring fictional characters:

      -David Winger plays Jack Torrance, who was the Jack Nicholson's character in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980).

      -Tad Brown plays NASA technician David Bowman, who was the Keir Dullea's character in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

      -Barbara Rogers plays Eve Kendall, who was the Eva Marie Saint's character in North by Northwest (1959).

      -Jacquelyn Toman plays María Vargas, who was the Ava Gardner's character in The Barefoot Contessa (1954).

      -Bernard Kirschoff plays former KGB agent Dimitri Muffley. The name is a mix between USA and USSR presidents in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).

      -John Rogers plays Ambrose Chappel, who were the names of George Howe (Chappel Sr.) and Richard Wordsworth (Chappel Jr.)'s characters in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).

      -Binem Oreg plays W.A. Koenigsberg, who is a play-on-words about Woody Allen's (W.A.) real name, Allen Stuart Koenigsberg, and the only one not fictional character referred.
    • Goofs
      States that Lyndon Johnson was governor of Texas before becoming president. And that Richard Nixon was governor of California before becoming president. They were actually both senators of their respective states.
    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Movie Mockumentaries (2014)
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      Clarice
      Written by Tiny Parham

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    • Release date
      • October 16, 2002 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Dark Side of the Moon
    • Production companies
      • ARTE
      • Point du Jour
      • Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)
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      52 minutes
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