Fly Rocket Fly

Germany, Belgium2018documentary91'Docs+Science (2019)

New Adventure Cinema, a political thriller and a farce in one, the film presents a forgotten episode of the German space quest whose spiritus movens was Lutz T. Kayser, an eminent engineer, a bold businessman who would make Elon Musk pale and the protagonist with a dream as great as the one portrayed by Werner Herzog in “Fitzcarraldo”. Excellently illustrated with archival materials, this story of the first private space company in the world involves genius, bratwurst, African caciques and the Congolese heart of darkness.