Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFritz Lang
Screenplay byThea von Harbou
Based onThe Rocket to the Moon
1928 novel
by Thea von Harbou
Produced byFritz Lang
StarringWilly Fritsch
Gerda Maurus
Klaus Pohl
Fritz Rasp
Gustl Gstettenbaur
Gustav von Wangenheim
CinematographyCurt Courant
Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 15 October 1929 (1929-10-15)
Running time
169 min. (2000 restoration) / Spain: 104 min. / Spain: 162 min. (DVD edition) / US: 95 min / West Germany: 91 min (edited version) (1970)
CountriesGermany
(Weimar Republic)
LanguagesSilent film
German intertitles

Woman in the Moon (German Frau im Mond) is a German science fiction silent film that premiered 15 October 1929 at the UFA-Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin to an audience of 2,000.[1] It is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films.[2] It was directed by Fritz Lang, and written by his wife Thea von Harbou, based on her 1928 novel The Rocket to the Moon.[3] It was released in the US as By Rocket to the Moon and in the UK as Girl in the Moon. The basics of rocket travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time by this film, including the use of a multi-stage rocket.[2][4] The film was shot between October 1928 and June 1929 at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg near Berlin.[1]

Director Fritz Lang (on the right), on the set of his film Woman in the Moon, 1929.
  1. ^ a b Close-up on the photo album of Woman in the Moon by Fritz Lang
  2. ^ a b Weide, Robert (Summer 2012). "The Outer Limits". DGA Quarterly: 64–71. OCLC 68905662. A gallery of behind-the-scenes shots of movies featuring space travel or aliens. Page 68, photo caption: "Directed by Fritz Lang (third from right), the silent film Woman in the Moon (1929) is considered one of the first serious science fiction films and invented the countdown before the launch of a rocket. Many of the basics of space travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time."
  3. ^ Pitts, Michael R. (31 December 2018). Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3289-6.
  4. ^ Benson, Michael (20 July 2019). "Science Fiction Sent Man to the Moon - Neil Armstrong's first small step owed more than you'd think to the footsteps of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Fritz Lang". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

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