Iron Sky

Iron Sky (2012)

Timing: 1:33 (93 min)

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Release date

2012-04-04

Country

Finland, Germany, Australia

Production

27 Films Production, Blind Spot Pictures, New Holland Pictures

Genre

Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Budget

$7 500 000

Revenue

$8 135 031

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Director

Timo Vuorensola

Actors

Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto, Udo Kier, Peta Sergeant, Stephanie Paul, Tilo Prückner, Michael Cullen, Kym Jackson, Ben Siemer
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Scenario

Producer

Tero Kaukomaa, Oliver Damian, Samuli Torssonen, Cathy Overett, Mark Overett, Cathy Rodda, Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, San Fu Maltha, Sean O'Kelly

Operator

Mika Orasmaa

Composer

Laibach

Artist

Audition

Uwe Bünker, Ben Parkinson

Editing

Suresh Ayyar
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• Supporters of the film online contributed $1,500,000 to the budget as investors.
• The scene depicting the 'trashing' of a US presidential campaign headquarters replicates, shot-for-shot, the well-known viral meme video “Hitler Finds Out About…”, which overlays comedic subtitles onto a scene from the film “The Bunker”.
• To film the shot of a Nazi machine gun firing in close-up, the front part of the German weapon was welded to a genuine Kalashnikov assault rifle to prevent malfunctions.
• Working outside the Hollywood system, the creators produced 800 computer graphics shots, approved by The Hollywood Reporter, for $1.2 million (for comparison, the budget for computer special effects for "Transformers" is approaching $50 million).
• The names of the Nazi spacecraft types – "Gold of the Rhine," "Twilight of the Gods," "Valkyrie," and "Siegfried" – are taken from the titles of Richard Wagner's operas from the "Ring of the Nibelung" cycle; Laibach’s music for the film is also based on themes from Wagnerian operas.
• The US President (according to the film's chronology – Obama's successor) is an obvious parody of Republican Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska, known for her shocking statements and poor geographical knowledge.
• The idea of a treacherous attack by the Nazi space fleet on Earth came to screenwriter Jārmo Puskala in a sauna.
• The names of the Nazi spacecraft types – "Gold of the Rhine," "Twilight of the Gods," "Valkyrie," and "Siegfried" – are taken from the titles of Richard Wagner's operas from the "Der Ring des Nibelungen" cycle; Laibach's music for the film is also based on themes from Wagnerian operas.