Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)

Directed by

Žiga Virc

Genre

documentary film, drama film, mockumentary

Country

Tunisia, Qatar, Czech Republic, Croatia

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

15+

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mockumentary that imagines a secret deal where the United States bought a hidden space program from Yugoslavia during the Cold War. It mixes real events with invented ones as a sly allegory about the era.

speculativetongue-in-cheekretroconspiratorialwryplayfulcold-war-inflected

What happens

Houston, We Have a Problem! (Slovene: Houston, imamo problem!) is a 2016 internationally co-produced docufiction-mockumentary film by Slovenian director Žiga Virc. The film explores the myth of the secret multibillion-dollar deal behind the United States' purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s. It is based and inspired by numerous real events and facts, in the sense that it is intended as an allegory to the Cold War. The film premiered on 16 April 2016 at Tribeca Film Festival. It was selected as the Slovenian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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