Somewhere on the Moon stands a dusty colony, a crude copy of a decaying Paris split by a wall that recalls the Berlin Wall. The dictator Mac Bee rules it with an iron fist, until a strange illness starts eating away at him and his sons, leaving them facing certain death. Their only hope is to find Tykho Moon, a mysterious possible donor believed to have died twenty years earlier. The search is complicated by a killer who targets any member of the family who dares to enter the city.

How it was made

Tykho Moon is a French, German and British co-production directed by Enki Bilal, who co-wrote the script with Dan Franck. Éric Gautier handled the cinematography and Thierry Derocles the editing. The cast includes Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Julie Delpy and Marie Laforêt, among others. It is a science fiction film shot in French.

Reception and legacy

The film opened in France on nine screens and took in 35,790 dollars in the week it finished fifteenth at the box office, a modest figure for a release of that size. The available sources offer little information on its critical reception or legacy, so no firmer conclusions can be drawn.

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A very limited release

The film opened in France on nine screens. Its weekly takings of 35,790 dollars placed it fifteenth at the box office.

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