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First Spaceship on Venus is a 1960 East German/Polish science fiction movie about a global staff of astronauts despatched to the planet.
Directed by Kurt Maetzig from a screenplay co-written with Jan Fethke, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Günter Reisch, Günther Rücker, Alexander Stenbock-Fermor and J. Barkhauer (uncredited), based mostly on the novel The Astronauts by Polish creator Stanislaw Lem.
The film stars Yôko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe and Mikhail N. Postnikov.
Plot:
After discovering an historical, long-buried flight recorder that initially got here from a spaceship, apparently from Venus, a human spaceship is dispatched to Venus.
The crew discovers a long-dead Venusian civilization that had constructed a tool meant to destroy all life on Earth previous to an invasion. Earlier than they may execute their plan, they perished in a worldwide nuclear battle…
Forged and characters:
Yôko Tani … Die japanische Ärztin / Sumiko Ogimura MD
Oldrich Lukes … Amerikanischer Atomphysiker / Prof. Harringway Hawling
Ignacy Machowski … Polnischer Chefingenieur / Prof. Saltyk / Prof. Durand
Julius Ongewe … Afrikanischer Fernsehtechniker / Talua
Mikhail N. Postnikov … Sowjetischer Astronaut / Prof. Arsenew / Prof. Orloff (as Michail N. Postnikow)
Kurt Rackelmann … Indischer Mathematiker / Prof. Sikarna
Günther Simon … Deutscher Pilot / Robert / Raimund Brinkmann
Hua-Ta Tang … Chinesischer Linguist / Physician Tchen Yu / Lao Tsu (as Tang Hua-Ta)
Lucyna Winnicka … Fernsehreporterin / Joan Moran (as Lucina Winnicka)
Filming areas:
Berlin-Johannisthal airfield, East Germany
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany (studio)
WFF Movie Studio, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland (studio)
Zakopane, Poland (out of doors scenes)
Technical particulars:
95 minutes
Agfacolor | “Technicolor” (US launch)
Side ratio: 2.35: 1 | “Totalvision” (US launch)
Audio: 4-track stereo
Unique title:
Der schweigende Stern “The Silent Star”
US launch:
This movie was launched in the US by Crown Worldwide Footage in 1962 as First Spaceship on Venus on a double-bill with Varan the Unbelievable. It was edited all the way down to 80 minutes, dubbed into English, and Andrzej Markowski’s rating was changed by a inventory rating ready by Gordon Zahler of the Normal Music Company.
Two otherwise reduce and dubbed variations of the movie had been additionally proven on the American market on the time, Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply and Planet of the Lifeless.
Enjoyable info:
Stanislaw Lem, whose novel the movie was based mostly upon, was extraordinarily essential of the difference and wished his identify faraway from the credit in protest: “It virtually delivered speeches concerning the wrestle for peace. Trashy screenplay was painted; tar was effervescent, which might not scare even a toddler.”
A brief sequence from First Spaceship on Venus was used as a “film-within-a-film” within the low-budget American function Galaxina (1980).
The unique, uncut model of the movie was lastly re-released within the USA. in 2004 below its unique title The Silent Star by the DEFA Movie Library of the College of Massachusetts Amherst.
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