Iron Sky

Iron Sky
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Timo Vuorensola
Produced by	Tero Kaukomaa Oliver Damian Mitchell Welsh Cathy Overett Sam Horton James Wenban Matt Pohl Mark Overett Samuli Torssonen
Screenplay by	Michael Kalesniko Ryan Healey Timo Vuorensola
Story by	Johanna Sinisalo Jarmo Puskala (concept)
Starring	Julia Dietze Christopher Kirby Götz Otto Peta Sergeant Stephanie Paul Udo Kier
Music by	Laibach
Cinematography	Mika Orasmaa
Edited by	Suresh Ayyar
Production company	Blind Spot Pictures 27 Films Production New Holland Pictures
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Finland (Finland) Polyband (Germany) Hoyts (Australia)
Release date	11 February 2012 (2012-02-11) (Berlinale) 4 April 2012 (2012-04-04) (Finland) 5 April 2012 (2012-04-05) (Germany) 10 May 2012 (2012-05-10) (Australia)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Finland Germany Australia
Language	English German
Budget	€7.5 million (approx. US$10 million)
Box office	$8.1 million

Iron Sky is a 2012 Finnish-German-Australiancomic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. It tells the story of a group of Nazi Germans who, having been defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon, where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth.

Iron Sky comes from the creators of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning and was produced by Tero Kaukomaa of Blind Spot Pictures and Energia Productions, co-produced by New Holland Pictures and 27 Films, and co-financed by numerous individual supporters; Samuli Torssonen was responsible for the computer-generated imagery. It was theatrically released throughout Europe in April 2012. A director's cut of the film with 20 additional minutes was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 11 March 2014.

A video-game adaptation titled Iron Sky: Invasion was released in October 2012. A sequel, titled Iron Sky: The Coming Race, is currently being crowdfunded through Indiegogo and is slated for a 2017 release.

The film opens in 2018 with an American manned landing mission to the Moon. The lander carries two astronauts, one of them an African American male model, James Washington, specifically chosen to aid the U.S. President in her re-election (various "Black to the Moon" word-play posters are seen in the film, extolling the new Moon landing).

Upon landing on the far side of the Moon, they encounter the descendents of Nazis who escaped to the Moon in 1945 (self-styled the "Fourth Reich" in dialogue). Washington is taken captive after the other astronaut is killed. Nazi scientist Doktor Richter examines Washington and obtains his smartphone, which he later recognizes as having more computing power than the 1940s style computers of the Fourth Reich, enabling its use as a control unit to complete their giant space battleship Götterdämmerung.