Woman in the Moon

Alternative title: Frau in Mond
Synopsis: 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. It is his final silent epic.
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. This version is newly restored to its near-original length.

DVD Extras: Original German intertitles with newly-translated optional English subtitles; 36-page booklet which includes a newly revised analysis by Michael E. Grost on the film, and on Fritz Lang’s body of work as a whole.
Series: Masters of Cinema
Language: German (Standard); English
Country: Germany
Year of release: 2007
Year of production: 1929
Subjects: Film studies; Science
Keywords: science fiction; silent films; space exploration

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