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. |
| 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. |
| terrorism | minor | It was mentioned that terrorists had blown up the Dome of the Rock on a bright sunny day at the height of tourist season. |