Frau im Mond (By Rocket to the Moon) (Woman in the Moon) (1929)
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One of the first major films to dwell upon the possibility of space travel, Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) is, like many of its modern-day counterparts, more successful on a special-effects level than it is in terms of character development. The titular female, played by Gerda Maurus (one of the stars of Lang's 1928 classic Spies) joins an extraterrestrial expedition in search of gold on the moon. Among the many prescient aspects of the film is its use of a countdown before
Oct 15, 1929 Wide
Nov 9, 2004
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Willy Fritsch
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Klaus Pohl
Georg Mansfeldt -
Gerda Maurus
Frieda Venton -
Fritz Rasp
Walt Turner -
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Gustav von Wangenhei...
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Fritz Lang's last silent film is nothing special, looking more like the work of Lang's wife and screenwriter (and Nazi-to-be) Thea von Harbou.
Top CriticAs opposed to the furious ellipsis of Spies, the launchpad countdown does not arrive until after the midway point, Lang's intro leisurely laying in human detail to contrast with the sense of dwarfing technology to follow.
In Lang's overlong but intriguing space oddity, the realities of flight clash with the reveries of the characters.
Magnificent science fiction epic.
The last silent film by Fritz Lang.
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[font=Century Gothic]"Woman in the Moon" is a very inventive and entertaining movie with a better sense of adventure than the recent "Fantastic Four" movie but it is too long and spends too much time on a romantic subplot. The technology might be out-dated(although they get the multi-staged rocket, right) but it all looks very impressive nonetheless. [/font]
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