Dark Side of the Moon
“Top secret.”
2002•52m•7.1•Released
Documentary
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.
Director
William Karel
Writer
William Karel
Languages
English, French
Studio
ARTE
Cast
Philippe Faure
Narrator (voice)
Christiane Kubrick
Self
Jan Harlan
Self
Vernon Walters
Self - CIA
Farouk Elbaz
Self - NASA
Jeffrey Hoffman
Self - NASA
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Yuri Gagarin
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Stanley Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
Wernher von Braun
Self (archive footage)
David Scott
Self - Apollo 15
David Winger
Jack Torrance
Neil Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
ARTE
Company
Point du Jour
Company
PROCIREP
Company
CNC
Producer
Luc Martin-Gousset
Producer
Emmanuelle Fage
Producer
Vincent Décis
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