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Fly Rocket Fly

  • 20182018
  • 1h 31m
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Fly Rocket Fly (2018)
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Elon Musk was not the first! This film tells the unbelievable story of OTRAG, the first private space launch company ever.Elon Musk was not the first! This film tells the unbelievable story of OTRAG, the first private space launch company ever.Elon Musk was not the first! This film tells the unbelievable story of OTRAG, the first private space launch company ever.
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    • Oliver Schwehm
    • Lutz Kayser
    • Oliver Schwehm
    • Lutz Kayser
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    Great take on a little known story
    I stumbled upon Fly Rocket Fly on the French/German channel ARTE earlier this year and I am glad I did. This documentary has a lot to tell as the underlying story is pure gold. The filmmakers had access to most of the key players here for a first-hand account of how a small team of German engineers went on a mission in the middle of nowhere in Zaire to build a rocket launcher. Another case of reality is stranger than fiction indeed.

    Stellar effort from director Oliver Schwehm with a superb storytelling of Herzogian proportions. My hope is the film reputation and fame are going to take off on their own merits so that we can enjoy watching a second film to discover the Libyan adventures of the OTRAC crew.

    (October 2021 edit) A follow up has been released as a TV Movie called "Deutsche Raketen für Gaddafi", albeit this effort was much less ambitious than the original film.
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      • September 27, 2018 (Germany)
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