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Woman in the Moon

Original title: Frau im Mond
  • 19291929
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 35m
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7.3/10
3.6K
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Woman in the Moon (1929)
AdventureComedyDrama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
3.6K
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    • Fritz Lang
    • Thea von Harbou(script by)
    • Fritz Lang(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Willy Fritsch
    • Gerda Maurus
    • Klaus Pohl
    • Fritz Lang
    • Thea von Harbou(script by)
    • Fritz Lang(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Willy Fritsch
    • Gerda Maurus
    • Klaus Pohl
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    • 46User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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    Gerda Maurus in Woman in the Moon (1929)
    Willy Fritsch and Gustav von Wangenheim in Woman in the Moon (1929)
    Willy Fritsch in Woman in the Moon (1929)
    Willy Fritsch and Gustl Gstettenbaur in Woman in the Moon (1929)
    Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus in Woman in the Moon (1929)
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    Fritz Rasp and Willy Fritsch in Woman in the Moon (1929)

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    Willy Fritsch
    Willy Fritsch
    • Wolf Helius
    Gerda Maurus
    Gerda Maurus
    • Friede Velten - Astronomy Student
    Klaus Pohl
    Klaus Pohl
    • Professor Georg Manfeldt
    Fritz Rasp
    Fritz Rasp
    • The Man Calling Self Walter Turner
    Gustl Gstettenbaur
    Gustl Gstettenbaur
    • Gustav
    • (as Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur)
    Gustav von Wangenheim
    Gustav von Wangenheim
    • Hans Windegger - Engineer
    • (as Gustav v. Wangenheim)
    Tilla Durieux
    • Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher
    Margarete Kupfer
    Margarete Kupfer
    • Frau Hippolt, Haushälterin bei Helius
    Alexa von Porembsky
    • Eine Veilchenverkäuferin
    • (as Alexa v. Porembska)
    Gerhard Dammann
    Gerhard Dammann
    • Der Werkmeister der Helius-Flugwerften
    • (as Dammann)
    Heinrich Gotho
    • Der Mieter vom II. Stock
    • (as Gotho)
    Alfred Loretto
    • Zwei eindeutige Existenzen
    • (as Loretto)
    Max Maximilian
    • Grotjan, Chauffeur bei Helius
    • (as Maximilian)
    Edgar Pauly
    • Zwei eindeutige Existenzen
    • (as Pauly)
    Karl Platen
    • Der Mann am Mikrophon
    • (as Platen)
    Mahmud Terja Bey
    • Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher
    • (as Terja Bey)
    Hermann Vallentin
    Hermann Vallentin
    • Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher
    • (as Vallentin)
    Borwin Walth
    • Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher
    • (as Walth)
      • Fritz Lang
      • Thea von Harbou(script by) (the novel "Frau im Mond" by)
      • Fritz Lang(screenplay) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      This film shows the first countdown to the launch of a rocket - not just the first one in a movie, but the first ever. It was invented as a dramatic device for the movie. Previously, all launches were begun with a count upward from zero to a designated number (usually ten). Also depicted for the first time are the use of liquid rocket fuel, a rocket with two stages, and zero gravity in space.
    • Goofs
      Dr. Manfeldt's newspaper clipping contains the date "Donnerstag (Thursday) August 17, 1896". That day was actually a Monday.
    • Quotes

      [Opening intertitle]

      The Author: "Never" does not exist for the human mind... only "Not yet."

    • Crazy credits
      Fritz Rasp is billed in the opening credits as "Der Mann, der sich Walter Turner nennt" or "The man who calls himself Walter Turner."
    • Alternate versions
      The film was given a release from Kino Internation on DVD, running a length of 169 minutes. The 2000 restoration runs 200 minutes. The original showing in the United States ran 156 minutes and was later cut to 95 minutes.
    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Heimlich singt für uns die Liebe
      Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner

      Lyrics by Fritz Rotter

      Sung by Gerda Maurus and Willy Fritsch

    User reviews46

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    8/10
    Excellent, despite some slow patches
    The new Kino DVD release of 'Woman In The Moon' is a great addition to anyone's Fritz Lang collection. Once again, the new music composed for the film adds tremendously to the experience. I was astounded by how ahead of its time this movie was in terms of its science, and it was no surprise to read that Ufa had a team of science consultants working with Lang to supply realistic details. The use of the rotation of the Earth to provide extra impetus to the rocket, the way the booster rockets were discarded as the spaceship moved further out of the Earth's atmosphere - having grown up watching real moon launches in the 60s, it was astonishing to see the actuality echoed by fiction decades earlier. There was clearly a lot of attention to detail; they even figured out ways of conveying weightlessness in space, which were pretty advanced for the time. The special effect of trying to pour a bottle of wine without gravity was both funny and impressive. The movie is not one of Lang's great masterpieces, and I agree with other comments that point out that it tends to slow down in places. Lang always did like making long, long movies, and when he settled down to tell a story, he could really take his time getting everything perfect. When this involves people just sitting or standing in a room talking, it can get a little tiresome - in one scene, Helius is trying to get through on the phone to his partner Windegger, and it takes so long he has time to snip to pieces a big bouquet of flowers on the table in front of him. I swear, it seems to be happening in real time; if there were something exciting happening in the meantime somewhere else it might have passed more quickly, but we just keep cutting between a scene of a man impatiently holding a phone to his ear and snipping at flowers, and a scene of people sitting at a dinner table listening to a speech. Not even Lang can make this gripping, though I think he was defiantly determined to try. On the other hand, there are places where it works well. The long buildup to the rocket launch is terrific - I would have enjoyed it if it were even longer. The hangar in the darkening scene, lit with jumpy spotlights as the moon begins to rise, the slow, smooth monumental sliding of that massive machinery as the rocket glides forward to its launch position, dwarfing the human beings walking alongside it, and all the beautiful changes of camera angle to draw in the viewer, are very moving. I can see why the Nazis liked Lang and wanted to get their claws into him; if they could have harnessed him to make THEIR kind of movies, he'd have been a real prize for them, another Riefenstahl. 'Woman In The Moon' wasn't a hit at the time, mainly because Lang (as usual) wouldn't listen to the studio heads who wanted some concessions to the coming of sound technology, so it was a dinosaur silent movie when the public was engrossed with something new. But it is definitely worth watching, and its strong points are worth sitting through some tedious slow patches to enjoy.
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    • Rosabel
    • Feb 28, 2005

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    • Release date
      • February 6, 1931 (United States)
      • Germany
      • German
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    • Filming locations
      • Marlene-Dietrich-Halle, Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Universum Film (UFA)
      • Fritz Lang-Film
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    • 1 hour 35 minutes
      • Silent

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