002 Operation Moon

002 Operation Moon

1965 · 84 min · ★ 5.5 · Comedy, Science Fiction

KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end, Franco and Ciccio stay in Russia and the real astronauts relocate to Italy.

Directed by Lucio Fulci · Written by Vittorio Metz

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Franco Franchi Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
Ciccio Ingrassia Ciccio / Major Borovin
Linda Sini Leonidova
María Silva Dr. Frausink
Mónica Randall Mishca Paradowsky
Elena Sedlak Nadia Boronis
Emilio Rodríguez compagno Skordiakoff
Chiro Bermejo ministro Mussovsky
Ignazio Leone Sergio
Franco Moruzzi compagno Vasinsky
Enzo Andronico Ivan
Piero Morgia Policeman

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