Die Frau im Mond
Brief Synopsis
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Cast & Crew
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Fritz Lang
Director
Gerda Maurus
Klaus Pohl
Max Zilzer
Alexa Von Porembska
Heinrich Gotho
Film Details
Also Known As
By Rocket to the Moon, Frau im Mond, Woman in the Moon
MPAA Rating
Genre
Foreign
Silent
Release Date
1929
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 27m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Synopsis
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Director
Fritz Lang
Director
Cast
Gerda Maurus
Klaus Pohl
Max Zilzer
Alexa Von Porembska
Heinrich Gotho
Gerhard Dammann
Gustav Von Wangenheim
Gustl Stark-gstettenbauer
Tilla Durieux
Willy Fitsch
Karl Platen
Fritz Rasp
Hermann Vallentin
Mahmud Terja Bey
Margarete Kupfer
Borwin Walth
Max Maximilian
Crew
Curt Courant
Photography
Oskar Fischinger
Special Effects
Oskar Fischinger
Photography
Emil Hasler
Art Director
Otto Hunte
Art Director
Otto Kanturek
Photography
Fritz Lang
Producer
Fritz Lang
Screenplay
Konstantin Tschet
Photography
Karl Vollbrecht
Art Director
Thea Von Harbou
Source Material (From Novel)
Thea Von Harbou
Screenplay
Film Details
Also Known As
By Rocket to the Moon, Frau im Mond, Woman in the Moon
MPAA Rating
Genre
Foreign
Silent
Release Date
1929
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 27m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Articles
Die Frau im Mond
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Die Frau im Mond
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Quotes
Trivia
This film shows the first countdown to launch of a rocket. Not just the first one in a movie, but the first ever: it was invented as a dramatic device for the movie. Also depicted for the first time are the use of liquid rocket fuel, a rocket with two stages, and zero gravity in space.
When the Nazis began working on war rockets, they decided the movie's rockets were too close to the truth. To preserve secrecy, they had the models destroyed and the film withdrawn from release.
German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth was hired by the studio to create a flying model of the Friede (the rocket in the movie) to launch from northern Germany on the day of the release as a publicity stunt. However, Oberth pulled out of the deal because the rocket was not working, and undue pressure from the director was causing too many frayed nerves.
