| Frau im Mond |
Frau im Mond | | Directed by | Fritz Lang | | Written by | Fritz Lang
Thea von Harbou story | | Starring | Klaus Pohl
Willy Fritsch | | Release date | 1929 | | Running time | 156 min. / 200 min. (2000 restoration) / Spain:104 min. / Spain:162 min. (DVD edition) / USA:95 min / West Germany:91 min (edited version) (1970) | | Language | Silent | | All Movie Guide profile | | IMDb profile | Frau im Mond is a science fiction silent movie released in 1929, and is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films. The title Frau im Mond translates to "Woman in the Moon". It was written and directed by Fritz Lang, based on the novel Die Frau im Mond (1928, translated as The Rocket to the Moon in 1930) by his then-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou. It was released in the USA as By Rocket to the Moon, and in the UK as Woman in the Moon. Image File history File links Frau_im_Mond. ...
Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ...
Thea von Harbou (December 27, 1888 – July 1, 1954) was a German actress and author of some noble Prussian descent. ...
See also: 1928 in film 1929 1930 in film 1920s in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events The days of the silent film were numbered. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
original theatrical poster Silent Movie is a 1976 comedy film directed by and starring Mel Brooks. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ...
Die Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon) is a science fiction novel written in 1928 by Thea von Harbou, about a fictitious moon mission. ...
1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Thea von Harbou (December 27, 1888 – July 1, 1954) was a German actress and author of some noble Prussian descent. ...
The film is a strange mixture of accurate science and bad guesses. The basics of rocket travel are presented to a mass audience for the first time. The idea that the moon rocket Friede would be submerged in water before launch was a bad guess. And, the first thing our space travelers do upon reaching the moon is use a dousing rod to search for water. A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. ...
Dowsing, also called divining or water witching, is a generic term for practices which proponents claim empower them to find water, metals, gem stones and hidden objects, usually by fluctuations of some apparatus (typically a Y-shaped twig, rod, rods, or pendulum) over a piece of land or a map. ...
Though the special effects used in the movie were innovative for their time, the movie was not a financial success, and also since most of the public began considering silent movies a thing of the past in 1929.
Influence
This film is often cited as the first movie containing a rocket-launching sequence that has long since become a motion picture cliche: the "countdown to zero". The launch crew counts down the seconds from ten to zero, and the rocket ship then blasts off into space. A countdown is the backward counting to indicate the seconds, days, etc. ...
Since rocket scientist Hermann Oberth worked as an advisor on this movie (he had originally intended to build a working rocket for use in the film; time and technology kept this from happening), it was very popular among the rocket scientists in Wernher von Braun's circle at the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR). The first successfully launched V-2 rocket at the rocket development facility in Peenemünde had the Frau im Mond logo painted on its base. Oberth (in front) with fellow ABMA employees Hermann Julius Oberth (June 25, 1894 - December 28, 1989) was a German physicist and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. ...
Wernher von Braun stands at his desk in the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama in May 1964, with models of rockets developed and in progress. ...
Members of the VfR, circa 1930. ...
The V-2 rocket or Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Reprisal weapon 2) was an early ballistic missile used by the German Army during the later stages of World War II against mostly Belgian and British targets. ...
Peenemündes position in Germany Peenemünde is a village in the northeast of the German island of Usedom. ...
See Also The period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) between the fall of the German Empire and the rise of the Third Reich is considered an early renaissance in world cinema, with many influential and important films being made. ...
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