{"id":20037,"date":"2026-04-25T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stummfilm-live.de\/project\/frau-im-mond\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:03:19","slug":"woman-in-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.stummfilm-live.de\/en\/project\/woman-in-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<h2>Info<\/h2>\n<p>Deutschland 1929<br \/>\nDrama von Fritz Lang<\/p>\n<p>Musikfassung f\u00fcr Piano von Wilfried Kaets<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e4nge: ca. 155 min<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short and Sweet<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"tagline-bold\">Gold on the moon, a rocket, a betrayal \u2014 and a love story played out 384,000 kilometres from Earth.<\/span>\u00a0Fritz Lang sends his heroes into space and along the way invents the countdown, the multi-stage rocket, and the modern science fiction film\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The last great German silent film \u2014 and the first serious space travel film in cinema history.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plot<\/h2>\n<p>The impoverished Professor Manfeldt believes there are vast gold deposits on the far side of the Moon \u2014 a theory the scientific establishment mocks. Only engineer Wolf Helius takes him seriously. Together with Manfeldt, his colleague Windegger, and Windegger&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e Friede, Helius launches the first lunar expedition. Shortly after takeoff, the crew discovers young Gustav as a stowaway who refused to miss the adventure. On the Moon, hidden rivalries erupt \u2014 over gold, over love, over survival. Not everyone will make it back.<\/p>\n<div id=\"footer\">\n<h2>Production<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shot between October 1928 and June 1929 at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg near Berlin. Following the commercial disaster of Metropolis, Lang was forced for the first time to work without a large budget or his producer Erich Pommer. Rocket scientist Hermann Oberth and science writer Willy Ley were brought on as technical advisors. To create the lunar landscape, 40 railway wagons of Baltic Sea sand were transported into the studio. When the talkie era arrived, Lang refused to add sound effects to the finished film \u2014 and won the argument with the UFA.<\/p>\n<h2>Fun Fact<\/h2>\n<p>Lang invented the countdown for this film: counting backwards from ten to zero at the rocket&#8217;s launch, so that audiences would immediately understand when liftoff was coming. Real space programmes later adopted this convention. 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