Dark Side of the Moon

Dark Side of the Moon

52 mins | Documentary | Oct. 16, 2002

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.

Dark Side of the Moon

52 mins | Documentary | Oct. 16, 2002

Dark Side of the Moon
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers ARTE, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, PROCIREP, Point du jour
Original title Opération Lune
Directors William Karel
Writers William Karel

Cast

Philippe Faure

as Narrator (voice)

Jan Harlan

as Self

Vernon Walters

as Self - CIA

Farouk Elbaz

as Self - NASA

Jeffrey Hoffman

as Self - NASA

John F. Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Yuri Gagarin

as Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Stanley Kubrick

as Self (archive footage)

Wernher von Braun

as Self (archive footage)

David Scott

as Self - Apollo 15

David Winger

as Jack Torrance

Neil Armstrong

as Self (archive footage)

Buzz Aldrin

as Self - Apollo 11

Tad Brown

as David Bowman - NASA Houston

Loïs Aldrin

as Self

Jacquelyn Toman

as Maria Vargas

Barbara Rogers

as Eve Kendall

Donald Rumsfeld

as Self

Richard Helms

as Self - CIA

Henry Kissinger

as Self - NSC

Alexander Haig

as Self