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Frau im Mond is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the valleys of the moon. (b) A tri-polar potboiler of a picture that manages to combine espionage tale, serial melodrama, and comic-book sci-fi into a storyline that is by turns delirious, hushed, and deranged. (c) A movie so rife with narrative contradiction and visual ingenuity that it could only be the work of one filmmaker: Fritz Lang.In this, Lang’s final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite’s vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold. When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus (both of whom had previously starred in Lang’s Spione), finally reach their impossible destination, they find themselves stranded in a lunar labyrinth without walls — where emotions run scattershot, and the new goal becomes survival.A modern Daedalus tale which uncannily foretold Germany’s wartime push into rocket-science, Frau im Mond is as much a warning-sign against human hubris as it is a hopeful depiction of mankind’s potential. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present for the first time in the UK the culmination of Fritz Lang’s silent cinema, newly restored to its near-original length.
Original Release
10/14/1929
US Release
02/06/1931
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Willy Fritsch | Wolf Helius |
Gerda Maurus | Friede Velten - Astronomy Student / Friede Velten |
Klaus Pohl | Professor Georg Manfeldt / Georg Manfeldt |
Fritz Rasp | The Man Calling Self Walter Turner / Walt Turner |
Gustl Gstettenbaur | Gustav |
Gustav von Wangenheim | Hans Windegger - Engineer / Hans Windegger |
Tilla Durieux | Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher |
Margarete Kupfer | Frau Hippolt, Haushälterin bei Helius / Frau Hippolt |
Alexa von Porembsky | Eine Veilchenverkäuferin / Veilchenverkäuferin |
Gerhard Dammann | Der Werkmeister der Helius-Flugwerften / Werkmeister |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Willy Fritsch | Wolf Helius |
Gerda Maurus | Friede Velten - Astronomy Student / Friede Velten |
Klaus Pohl | Professor Georg Manfeldt / Georg Manfeldt |
Fritz Rasp | The Man Calling Self Walter Turner / Walt Turner |
Gustl Gstettenbaur | Gustav |
Gustav von Wangenheim | Hans Windegger - Engineer / Hans Windegger |
Tilla Durieux | Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher |
Margarete Kupfer | Frau Hippolt, Haushälterin bei Helius / Frau Hippolt |
Alexa von Porembsky | Eine Veilchenverkäuferin / Veilchenverkäuferin |
Gerhard Dammann | Der Werkmeister der Helius-Flugwerften / Werkmeister |
Heinrich Gotho | Der Mieter vom II. Stock / Mieter |
Alfred Loretto | Zwei eindeutige Existenzen |
Max Maximilian | Grotjan, Chauffeur bei Helius |
Edgar Pauly | Zwei eindeutige Existenzen |
Karl Platen | Der Mann am Mikrophon |
Mahmud Terja Bey | Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher |
Hermann Vallentin | Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher |
Borwin Walth | Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher |
Max Zilzer | Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher |
Die Maus Josephine | The Mouse |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Fritz Lang | Producer |