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Motion posters are the latest cool gimmick in online film advertising and we've got one for you here that you might not have seen before. It is for an independent science fiction film, Iron Sky, that yours truly has been tracking for some time.

Iron Sky is being produced in Finland by Energia Productions. Energia was started by the makers of the Star Wreck series of Star Trek spoofs. The most recent such film, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, is reckoned to be Finland's most successful film because it has been legally downloaded from the Internet more than 8 million times. A special edition was recently released on DVD in Britain.

Energia's new film is a departure from the Star Wreck series. In the plot of Iron Sky it is 2018 and a group of Nazis that escaped to the Moon at the end of the Second World War are planning a triumphant return.

Iron Sky, the independent and co-operative film project by the makers of the Star Trek spoof Star Wreck has got its first cast member: French-born actress Julia Dietze.

Dietze has worked on several European film and television projects, including Little Paris, 1½ Knights -- In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde and Vice Squad. In Iron Sky she will play Renate Richter, a Nazi officer who is sent to Earth from the Moon to find out if our planet is ripe for conquest.

"Julia is a perfect opposite to the testosterone-filled Nazis and massive space battles the film’s visual imagery consists mainly of", said Iron Sky director Timo Vuorensola.

Iron Sky is being produced by Energia, a production company set up by the Finnish filmmakers responsible for a series of hugely popular free-to-download Star Trek spoofs. The most recent production, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, attracted the interest of Universal.