A Marriage in the Moon (1910)

Original title

Un matrimonio interplanetario

Directed by

Yambo

Genre

science fiction, silent film

Country

Kingdom of Italy

Runtime

13 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Earth astronomer proposes marriage to a woman from Mars. They travel to the Moon for their wedding, but humanoid aliens attack them there.

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What happens

Un Matrimonio Interplanetario (English: A Marriage on the Moon) is an Italian silent cortometraggio (short film), written and directed by Enrico de’ Conti Novelli da Bertinoro in 1910. The film's story is based on Novelli's novel La Colonia Lunare English: The Moon Colony (1908), published under Novelli's frequently-used pseudonym, Yambo in 1908. Un Matrimonio Interplanetario (1910) is the oldest surviving Italian science-fiction film. In the film, an astronomer from Earth proposes marriage to a young Martian woman. They both use spacecraft to travel to the Moon for their wedding, but they are attacked there by humanoid aliens. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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