Professor George Manfield was once booed by colleagues for offering to organize an expedition to the moon, rich in native gold, and Ekes out a half-starved, abandoned by all but his followers of wolf Helius. Suddenly, however, his project of flight to the moon are of interest for a strange man, who calls the work of Professor "curiosity" and offers to sell the manuscript at a bargain price. Professor pulls him down the stairs.
Frau im Mond
| Year | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Country | Germany |
| Director | Fritz Lang |
| Cinematography | Curt CourantOskar FischingerKonstantin Irmen-Tschet |
| Scriptwriters | Thea von HarbouFritz LangHermann Oberth |
| Produced | Fritz Lang |
| Music | Jon MirsalisStuart OdermanWilly Schmidt-Gentner |
| Art Direction | Emil HaslerOtto HunteKarl Vollbrecht |
| Genres | FictionDramaMelodramaComedy |
| Release Date | October 15, 1929 |
| Runtime | 190 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
Technical consultant of the film was an outstanding German engineer Hermann Oberth, one of the initiators of rocketry enthusiast and the idea of space flight, the predecessor and teacher of Wernher von Braun. Moreover, participation in this project significantly helped Robert's experiments on the construction of the present liquid-fuel rocket.
The film was first shown pre-launch countdown. It was invented as a dramatic technique to heighten tension, but proved extremely useful and subsequently in a natural way has become a practice missile launches.
The most common version of the film has a duration of 169 minutes. Restored in 2000, the full version lasts 200 minutes. The us rental version was cut to 95 minutes.
Frame of film was painted on the lower part of the body of the first instance of the V-2 rocket.
The film is based on the science fiction novel by Thea von Harbou, wife of the Director at the time.
The film entered the list of the most reliable sci-Fi movie according to NASA.
In the pavilion, where the film was shot, in the summer of 1929, worked as a simple laborer 17-year-old Werner von Braun. After forty years under the leadership of the man was carried out of the real flight to the moon for the Apollo program.
The launch complex for space rockets in many details strikingly similar to the NASA spaceport at Cape Canaveral, исключениtм start from the water-filled mine. Other circumstances (the large size of the rockets, filling with liquid fuel, removal from the hangar to an upright position, stepping the mast, landing crew with a lift in the second tier) is an example of a surprisingly accurate technical foresight.
According to the concept of the film the weightlessness in space is not (it occurs only in the area of balance of gravitational forces of the Earth and moon).
