FLY ROCKET FLY

SpaceX and Elon Musk weren’t the first! About the meteoric rise and sudden fall of the first-ever private space company: foolhardy, ingenious and »Made in Germany«. Like a political thriller, FLY ROCKET FLY tells of the charismatic visionary and entrepreneur Lutz Thilo Kayser who relocates to General Mobutus’ Congolese jungle with other passionate engineers in order to conquer space. When the inventors almost topple the world order of the Cold War with their rocket launch system they come into the unrelenting firing line of super powers until their downfall seems certain. Featuring unique and never seen before archive footage and enigmatic contemporary witnesses.