As one of Herr von Braun's erstwhile targets I am conscious of the fact that any film glorifying his achievements in the totally ludicrous so- called "Space Race" (America's captured ex-Nazis vs Russia's captured ex-Nazis)may not get a completely objective review from any Brit old enough to remember his "kinder" the V.1 and V.2s raining down on southern England in the service of his beloved vaterland. The fact that thousands of untermenschen died in slave labour conditions working directly under his command seems to have escaped the makers of "I aim at the stars".Shame on them.Curd Jurgens....well,maybe just a smidgen of pride in his fellow countryman's attainments helped assuage any artistic or moral doubts he may have had about portraying a mass murderer as a man with a social conscience who rather too swiftly embraced the doctrine of Pax Americana. If there are any redeeming features to this movie they passed me by. The overriding impression I got was that on the last day of World War 2 there were 3 million Nazis in Germany and on the first day of peace there weren't enough to start a poker school.
Review of I Aim at the Stars
