'Prisoners of the Moon' trivia and fun facts
The function of the film
Nick Snow would answer the question about what he expected the viewers to take away at the end of the film in a simple way. And is that he hoped that they would not repeat the same mistakes that were made in the past to consider the enemy of an enemy as a friend . Practice that, according to the writer, was an attitude that was made from the American military army as the American defense itself).
A different approach
Unlike of many other films that have covered and explained the arrival to the Moon, this documentary highlights the role of Arthur Rudolph, a German engineer who led the effort to develop the V-2 missile for Nazi Germany.
The birth of the idea
The idea of ''Prisoners of the Moon'' is presented by Nick Snow, writer of the documentary to the director Johnny Gogan, approximately in 2016
Living in ignorance
The documentary's idea is based on a radio play by journalist Nick Snow. In that play, the journalist said that US citizen don't know that fact of nazi scientists helping the Americans to win the space war. The film is co-written and co-produced by Nick Snow.
Why a drama?
One of the unknowns that haunt the production of the film was why a drama was chosen as a genre of the documentary. The reason was simple because "it was the best way to tell the story through his characters" said Nick Snow
Duality
The documentary looks for asking whether Rudolph was a scientific hero used by the Nazi regime or a leader in the slavery programme that let 20.000 war prisioners die in a subterranean rocket factory.
The other heroism
Johnny Gogan, the director, has said: ?We don?t want to rain on the Apollo 11 parade ? those astronauts were heroes - but there are other kinds of heroism, stories of great human endurance connected with the development of rocket technology and these stories also deserve to be told alongside all the celebrations.?
50 years
The film' release coincides with the 50th anniversary of the man landing on the Moon. It was the 16th of July of 1969.