Im Schatten des Mondes (2007)
42KIm Schatten des Mondes: Directed by David Sington. With Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Stephen Armstrong, Viola Armstrong. The crew members of NASA’s Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.
“Bravo to everyone involved in this great film. I just caught it at the 16th Philadelphia Film Festival. Director David Sington answered questions eloquently and patiently as I sat stunned after the film. Having read every Apollo astronaut biography I know to exist I didnu0026#39;t think Iu0026#39;d learn much in the way of facts from the movie, but it turns out there were a couple of things. It is great to see these men who gave so much to my generation talking about the experience decades later. They are wiser and gentler people than when they flew the spacecraft. Sington stated that he wanted to show the events from the point of view of the astronauts. He succeeds, and the experience is moving and meaningful to everyone who looked out from this world in a state of wonder. The Apollo program remains something similar to Leonardou0026#39;s sketch of a helicopter–an idea ahead of its time technologically, politically and economically, here at the very start of humanityu0026#39;s adventure in the Universe, only a few thousand years after we started using agriculture and so on. When future generations wonder what was going on during the Apollo decade I think this movie is one of the things theyu0026#39;ll be looking at.”
