A delightfully tongue-in-cheek respect to a made-up East German space project, Jim Finn’s “Interkosmos” uses recreated newsreels combined with musical interludes to resuscitate the ’70s in all its Brezhnev-days excellence. Almost identical in its mockumentary technique to “First People on the Moon” but with a broader sense of wry fun, pic uncannily captures the self-glorifying hyperbole and straight-faced seriousness of the Communist bloc’s attempts to make a splash in the race to elbow-room. Audacious fest auds pass on best appreciate this genuine crowd-pleaser.

More a series of similarly-themed sketches than a cohesively flowing unit, pic imagines East Germany leading the way in efforts to colonize the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Participating in the grand scheme for the betterment of an anti-capitalist world are cosmonauts Seagull (Nandini Khaund) and Falcon (helmer Finn), whose hesitant space romance, over intergalactic static, forms the core — a deadpan recitation of “The Trolley Song” is priceless. Color footage is suitably tinged orange-pink with age, and music and art direction are impeccable; as a final tease, exit music is longer than in “Gone With the Wind.”