For other uses, see Woman in the Moon (disambiguation).
Woman in the Moon
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Screenplay by
Thea von Harbou
Based on
The Rocket to the Moon 1928 novel by Thea von Harbou
Produced by
Fritz Lang
Starring
Willy Fritsch Gerda Maurus Klaus Pohl Fritz Rasp Gustl Gstettenbaur Gustav von Wangenheim
Cinematography
Curt Courant
Music by
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Distributed by
UFA
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)
Countries
Germany (Weimar Republic)
Languages
Silent 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.
^ abClose-up on the photo album of Woman in the Moon by Fritz Lang
^ ab
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."
^Pitts, Michael R. (31 December 2018). Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3289-6.
^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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