$27000.00 russian film tells the story of cosmonaut aleksei leon of the 1st man to walk in space schley on nov left his orbiting capsule on march 18th 1965 and spent 12 minutes floating around outside. by the time he returned to earth soviet space officials had decided that leon of was to be part of moscow's 1st lunar mission but the project was later cancelled. was the moon landing faked a 2002 french mockumentary alleges that greene noun director stanley kubrick shot the scenes at a studio acting under orders from the cia the film claims that the idea for faking the landing originally came from president nixon. became very aware how important the visual spectacle effect is going to be at 1st i didn't take it very seriously about with ford motor. but it kept growing our border on ben one of the presidential advisors i don't know general alexander haig or donald rumsfeld. said hesitantly. why the if we fill the 1st steps on the moon in the studio then if we fail we can always show those pictures to the public. the film is best understood as satire as opposed to a traditional factual doc