Woman in the Moon

Starring: Fritsch, Willy and Rasp, Fritz

Product Description

Two years after revolutionizing the science fiction film with his epic Metropolis, director Fritz Lang revisited the genre with an ambitious spectacle that dramatizes the first lunar expedition.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: February 2016
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Kino Video
• Director: Lang, Fritz
• Starring: Fritsch, Willy, Rasp, Fritz
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Frau im Mond (1929) was sophisticated for its time.

Poor, penniless Professor Georg Manfeldt has a theory that the moon has gold, lots of it, and why not? His rich friend Wolf Helius owns a rocket factory, and it seems that he has sent everything up but people. Turns out his friend Wolf has a problem; the girl Friede that he secretly loves had no idea that he felt that way and married their mutual friend and head engineer Windegger in the factory. A sophisticated criminal element gets involved and wants to control the moon gold flow. List of occupants: Professor Georg Manfeldt (Klaus Pohl) Wolf Helius (Willy Fritsch) Hans Windegger, Ingenieur (Gustav von W angenheim) Friede Velten, Student astrologer (Gerda Maurus) Gustav, Child stowaway (Gustl Gstettenbaur) Der Mann, Criminal element (Fritz Rasp) The Mouse (Die Maus Josephine) Everything is going along swimmingly until the obligatory lack of water, oxygen, and life. This is not your run-of-the-mill love on a rocket that "misfires" movie. Maybe because they took the time to flesh out the movie and not rush the story, it turned out to be very sophisticated. There is time for intrigue and subterfuge, as even the bad guys are well organized and believable. Top writers and top directors and UFA studios can only produce a masterpiece. The models are very good, and many of the real problems with space are anticipated and depicted, unlike some cheap remakes. I was disappointed to find that all they found on the moon was gold and not Louise Brooks; the title is misleading.