Interkosmos

Sending up the bombast and ambition of the Cold War-era space race, this bizarre mockumentary follows the progress of a fictitious East German program known as Interkosmos. The film incorporates animation, fake newsreels, musical numbers, and live-action scenes in its chronicle of the plan to use space voyages to discover inhabitable worlds on which to plant the Communist flag. Dean DeMatteis, writer/director Jim Finn star. 71 min. Soundtrack: English and German.