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.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Gustl Gstettenbaur
- Gustav
- (as Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur)
Gustav von Wangenheim
- Hans Windegger - Engineer
- (as Gustav v. Wangenheim)
Alexa von Porembsky
- Eine Veilchenverkäuferin
- (as Alexa v. Porembska)
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
- Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher
- (as Vallentin)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis 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.
- GoofsWhen Helius listens for Friede's heartbeat, fearing that the launch may have killed her, we can see her breathing heavily.
- Quotes
[Opening intertitle]
The Author: "Never" does not exist for the human mind... only "Not yet."
- Crazy creditsFritz Rasp is billed in the opening credits as "Der Mann, der sich Walter Turner nennt" or "The man who calls himself Walter Turner."
- Alternate versionsThe 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.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers (1999)
- SoundtracksHeimlich singt für uns die Liebe
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Lyrics by Fritz Rotter
Sung by Gerda Maurus and Willy Fritsch
Featured review
The first half of this film; the set-up of the flight, the introduction to the main characters, a love triangle, and an international conspiracy; is frankly boring. But once the flight begins, action tenses up and things get interesting.
For 1929, the science is sometimes prescient-- a three stage rocket, a vertical assembly building, and a monstrous rolling gantry crawler-- are suggestive of the Apollo program. Other times the science is more romantic, using dowsing rods and an egg-shaped moon. The eggy moon allows a far-side with a breathable atmosphere. But an eggy moon really isn't less scientific than faster than light travel, which is a staple of modern space flight science fiction. FTL travel is simply a mechanism whereby a cast of characters can visit multiple star systems; the eggy moon allows the visit to a breathable world in the context of a 1930s Europe.
This movie understandably has fairly primitive special effects. One major effect, a rotating barrel decorated as the moon, is charming.
The ending is definitely touching. In the sub-genre of science fiction/space flight, this is an important and interesting film and well worth suffering through the first half.
For 1929, the science is sometimes prescient-- a three stage rocket, a vertical assembly building, and a monstrous rolling gantry crawler-- are suggestive of the Apollo program. Other times the science is more romantic, using dowsing rods and an egg-shaped moon. The eggy moon allows a far-side with a breathable atmosphere. But an eggy moon really isn't less scientific than faster than light travel, which is a staple of modern space flight science fiction. FTL travel is simply a mechanism whereby a cast of characters can visit multiple star systems; the eggy moon allows the visit to a breathable world in the context of a 1930s Europe.
This movie understandably has fairly primitive special effects. One major effect, a rotating barrel decorated as the moon, is charming.
The ending is definitely touching. In the sub-genre of science fiction/space flight, this is an important and interesting film and well worth suffering through the first half.
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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