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A masterpiece of guerrilla filmmaking. Equal parts offensive, hilarious, and visionary. Don’t watch it for historical accuracy. Watch it for the sight of Nazi zeppelins burning over the Manhattan skyline while a Sarah Palin clone sings "Under the Iron Sky."
The film’s Finnish origins are key here: Nordic humor is notoriously dark, dry, and willing to touch the third rail. Iron Sky 1 doesn't laugh at the victims of Nazism; it laughs at the aesthetics of Nazism and how modern politicians borrow those aesthetics (rallies, uniforms, rhetoric of purity) for their own gain. iron sky 1
The story behind Iron Sky is as compelling as the film itself. Director Timo Vuorensola was a member of the Finnish "Energia" film collective, known for their low-budget Star Trek parody Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005). That film gained a massive online following, and Vuorensola decided to leverage that community for his next project. A masterpiece of guerrilla filmmaking
The production design is a love letter to Flash Gordon , Metropolis , and Star Wars . The Nazis speak in German, but their computer screens show ridiculously complicated schematic drawings with skulls on them. Their uniforms are impossibly stylish, yet their ideology is reduced to a hollow branding exercise. Watch it for the sight of Nazi zeppelins
To understand Iron Sky , one must understand its creators, the Finnish independent filmmaking collective known as Blind Spot Pictures. Led by director Timo Vuorensola, the team had previously made Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning , a feature-length fan parody that gained traction online for its impressive CGI done on a shoestring budget.