Murder on the Moon story
A Soviet investigator reluctantly teams up with his United States counterpart to get to the bottom of a mysterious murder which has taken place on the Moon.
12 total · 5 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| colonization of the Moon | major | The film is set on a Moon base in a near future when both the United Sates and the Soviet Union maintain a permanent presence on the satellite. |
| cooperation | major | A Soviet investigator and his counterpart from the United States had to put their differences aside in order to solve a murder case to which they'd been jointly assigned to solve. |
| murder | major | A Soviet investigator, named Stepan, teamed up with his United States counterpart, Maggie, to investigate a murder which had recently taken place on the Moon. |
| nuclear weapons | major | An important component of the film is that the United States and Soviet Union had in the recent past avoided a full-scale nuclear war by a hair's breadth. |
| romantic love | major | The investigators Stepan and Maggie fell passionately in love with each other during the course of teaming up to solve a murder case on the Moon. |
| corruption in society | minor | A highly placed Soviet official was taking bribes to cover up acts of corporate malfeasance on the part of Cruise-McKinney Mines, Inc. |
| gender identity | minor | Stepan and Maggie pieced together that Louise Mackey had undergone a sex change operation, and that her true identity was that of the international terrorist John Pedro Vogler. The Moon base commander Dennis Huff, who showed signs of being romantically interested in Louise, was particularly unsettled by this revelation. |
| interplanetary space travel | minor | Maggie arrived on the Moon on a flight from Europa. |
| invasion of privacy | minor | Louise Mackey was outraged to find out that the Cruise-McKinney Mines corporation had installed surveillance cameras in every module of the Moon base where she worked under in their employ, including in her private quarters. |
| sports | minor | Stepan was fencing with a fellow crewman. |