Houston, imamo problem!

Back in the sixties Tito negotiated a secret deal with NASA, as part of which he sold the Yugoslav space system to the USA. In return socialist Yugoslavia reaped billions of dollars in overseas aid, leading to a boom the likes of which the region had never witnessed before. That is until the Americans realised that the programme was nothing more than a work in progress. Several of those involved were even forced to emigrate to the United States, where they adopted new identities. At home they were declared either missing or presumed deceased. It is to meet one of these individuals that the film's crew heads to the USA, returning with him to the sites where this lost chapter from the Cold War played out.

Director Žiga Virc draws on both archive material and interviews with the likes of philosopher Slavoj Žižek as he playfully interweaves conspiracy theories, Cold War era falsehoods and a sobering reality. JT