Woman in the Moon | |
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Directed by | Fritz Lang |
Screenplay by | Thea von Harbou |
Based on | The Rocket to the Moon 1928 novel by Thea von Harbou |
Produced by | Fritz Lang |
Starring | Willy Fritsch Gerda Maurus Klaus Pohl Fritz Rasp Gustl Gstettenbaur Gustav von Wangenheim |
Cinematography | Curt Courant |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 169 min. (2000 restoration) / Spain: 104 min. / Spain: 162 min. (DVD edition) / US: 95 min / West Germany: 91 min (edited version) (1970) |
Countries | Germany (Weimar Republic) |
Languages | Silent film German intertitles |
Woman in the Moon (German Frau im Mond) is a German science fiction silent film that premiered 15 October 1929 at the UFA-Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin to an audience of 2,000.[1] It is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films.[2] It was directed by Fritz Lang, and written by his wife Thea von Harbou, based on her 1928 novel The Rocket to the Moon.[3] It was released in the US as By Rocket to the Moon and in the UK as Girl in the Moon. The basics of rocket travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time by this film, including the use of a multi-stage rocket.[2][4] The film was shot between October 1928 and June 1929 at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg near Berlin.[1]
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