First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
- Original title
- Der schweigende Stern
- Directed by
- Kurt Maetzig
- Genre
- adventure film, science fiction film
- Country
- German Democratic Republic, Poland
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 82 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Scientists on Earth uncover a flight recorder from a crashed alien spaceship. A crew travels to Venus to investigate. They find a dead civilization that once planned to destroy Earth but destroyed itself with nuclear war instead.
suspensefulretro-futuristicsoberingslow-burnmind-expandingcautionarycontemplative
What happens
Der schweigende Stern (literal English translation The Silent Star) is a 1960 East German/Polish color science fiction film based on the 1951 science fiction novel The Astronauts by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. In Poland, the film was known as Milcząca Gwiazda (which translates as The Silent Star). The film was directed by Kurt Maetzig, and stars Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe, and Yoko Tani. It was first released in February 1960 by Progress Film in East Germany, running 95 min. It was released in the US on 31 October 1962 retitled First Spaceship on Venus. After finding an ancient, long-buried flight recorder that originally came from a spaceship, apparently from Venus, a human spaceship is dispatched to the Morning star. The crew discovers a long-dead Venusian civilization that had constructed a device intended to destroy all life on Earth prior to invasion. Before they could execute their plan, they perished in a global nuclear war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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