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CREES Film and Discussion. Houston, We Have a Problem!

Žiga Virc, director; Boštjan Virc, producer
Monday, January 30, 2017
6:00-8:30 PM
Helmut Stern Auditorium Museum of Art Map
In Croatian, English, Serbian, and Slovene with English subtitles (88 min., 2016). Post-screening Q&A with the director and producer.

"Houston, We Have a Problem!" is a docu-fiction film co-produced by Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, the Czech Republic and Qatar. Žiga Virc’s debut full-length film examines the myth of the United States' secret multi-million dollar purchase of the Yugoslav space program in the early 1960s. The masterful use of archival footage takes the audience back to the Cold War, the space race and NASA’s landing on the Moon. Virc intersperses real and fictional events, challenging the viewer to decide what is real and what is fiction.

Žiga Virc, an Academy Award nominated film and television director, wrote the screenplay with Boštjan Virc, who is also the film’s producer. The cinematographer is Andrej Virc, the founder of Studio Virc. In addition to Studio Virc, the producers include Nukleus Film, Sutor Kolonko, and co-producers, RTV Slovenia, HBO Europe, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and the Doha Film Institute.

The film will be Slovenia's nominee for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017.
Building: Museum of Art
Event Type: Film Screening
Tags: European, Film, History, International
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Comparative Literature, Center for European Studies, International Institute, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Slavic Languages & Literatures