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Frau Im Mond (Woman in the Moon) - Dual Format Edition (Masters of Cinema)
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Frau im Mond. [Woman in the Moon.] is: The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the valleys of the moon.
A tri-polar potboiler of a picture that manages to combine espionage tale, serial melodrama, and comic-book sci-fi into a storyline that is by turns delirious, hushed, and deranged.
A movie so rife with narrative contradiction and visual ingenuity that it could only be the work of one filmmaker: Fritz Lang.
In this, Lang's final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite's vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold. When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus (both of whom had previously starred in Lang's Spione), finally reach their impossible destination, they find themselves stranded in a lunar labyrinth without walls - where emotions run scattershot, and the new goal becomes survival.
A modern Daedalus tale which uncannily foretold Germany's wartime push into rocket-science, Frau im Mond. Is as much a warning sign against human hubris as it is a hopeful depiction of mankind's potential. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) special edition the culmination of Fritz Lang's silent cinema, restored to its near-original length.
Special Features:
- Gorgeous 1080p transfer on the Blu-ray of the F. W. Murnau-Stiftung restoration
- Original German intertitles with newly translated optional English subtitles
- The First Scientific Science-Fiction Film - a German documentary about Frau im Mond. Made by Gabriele Jacobi [15:00]
- 36-page booklet which includes a newly revised analysis by Michael E. Grost on the film, and on Fritz Lang's body of work as a whole
- Masters of Cinema
- 170 mins approx.
- Fritz Lang
- U
- Klaus Pohl
- Willy Fritsch
- Gustav von Wangenheim
- Gerda Maurus
- Gustl Gstettenbaur
- Fritz Rasp
- Tilla Durieux
- Hermann Vallentin
- Max Zilzer
- Mahmud Terja Bey
- Borwin Walth
- Karl Platen
- Die Maus Josephine
- Margarete Kupfer
- Alexa von Porembsky
- Gerhard Dammann
- Heinrich Gotho
- Alfred Loretto
- Max Maximilian
- Edgar Pauly
- 1.33:1
English
- 1929
- German
- 1
- B
- Eureka!
Frau Im Mond (Woman in the Moon) - Dual Format Edition (Masters of Cinema)
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Frau im Mond. [Woman in the Moon.] is: The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the valleys of the moon.
A tri-polar potboiler of a picture that manages to combine espionage tale, serial melodrama, and comic-book sci-fi into a storyline that is by turns delirious, hushed, and deranged.
A movie so rife with narrative contradiction and visual ingenuity that it could only be the work of one filmmaker: Fritz Lang.
In this, Lang's final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite's vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold. When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus (both of whom had previously starred in Lang's Spione), finally reach their impossible destination, they find themselves stranded in a lunar labyrinth without walls - where emotions run scattershot, and the new goal becomes survival.
A modern Daedalus tale which uncannily foretold Germany's wartime push into rocket-science, Frau im Mond. Is as much a warning sign against human hubris as it is a hopeful depiction of mankind's potential. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) special edition the culmination of Fritz Lang's silent cinema, restored to its near-original length.
Special Features:
- Gorgeous 1080p transfer on the Blu-ray of the F. W. Murnau-Stiftung restoration
- Original German intertitles with newly translated optional English subtitles
- The First Scientific Science-Fiction Film - a German documentary about Frau im Mond. Made by Gabriele Jacobi [15:00]
- 36-page booklet which includes a newly revised analysis by Michael E. Grost on the film, and on Fritz Lang's body of work as a whole
- Masters of Cinema
- 170 mins approx.
- Fritz Lang
- U
- Klaus Pohl
- Willy Fritsch
- Gustav von Wangenheim
- Gerda Maurus
- Gustl Gstettenbaur
- Fritz Rasp
- Tilla Durieux
- Hermann Vallentin
- Max Zilzer
- Mahmud Terja Bey
- Borwin Walth
- Karl Platen
- Die Maus Josephine
- Margarete Kupfer
- Alexa von Porembsky
- Gerhard Dammann
- Heinrich Gotho
- Alfred Loretto
- Max Maximilian
- Edgar Pauly
- 1.33:1
English
- 1929
- German
- 1
- B
- Eureka!
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Amazing remasterisation
It is such a grreat pleasure to watch such an old movie with this amazing quality. All the art of Fritz Lang in its beauty. Great booklet, interesting facts. I could only recommend this edition for any fan of classic, of Fritz Lang and fan of cinema everywhere
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Great film, beautiful edition
The Eureka Masters of Cinema have done it again. They have not only taken a great classic and made it available to the masses, they have done it in a beautiful edition with a fine restoration, interesting documentary and a well written booklet. What I don't get is the dual format thing, why insisting on the dvd's?
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