First Spaceship on Venus
by Kurt Maetzig
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Actor: Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe, Michail N. Postnikow, Oldrich Lukes, Yoko TaniDirector: Kurt Maetzig
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Kurt Maetzig
Writer: Alexander Stenbock-Fermor
Writer: G?nter Reisch
Writer: G?nther R?cker
Writer: J. Barkhauer
Writer: Jan Fethke
Writer: Stanislaw Lem
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Crown International Pictures
Movie Reviews of First Spaceship on Venus
Movie Review: Chopped to bits
Summary: 2 Stars
This version is so chopped up that it's difficult to tell what's going on. I can't help thinking that there might have been an interesting movie in there, but between the awkward dubbing into English and the abrupt jumps in scenes, it's just too difficult to follow to be really fun.
An attempt at scientific accuracy (for what was known in 1959) seems to have been attempted in the first few minutes of the movie, but as it goes on it gets increasingly wacky; losing any pretense of being hard science fiction. It's visually interesting at points; that's about all it has going for it. It does get points for the interracial crew and a decent spaceship. But it's hard to recommend this one, overall.
Summary of First Spaceship on Venus
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 10/03/2006 Run time: 78 minutes Rating: NrIn a utopian future of universal peace and brotherhood--1985 to be specific--a mysterious artifact found in Siberia is discovered to be a message from Venus. While the recording is studied, an international team of scientists is rocketed off to make contact with the mysterious planet. It takes the film some time to get going (worldwide harmony makes for a beautiful future but pallid drama when everyone gets along so nicely), but things begin to cook once they land on the misty wasteland of Venus. Swarms of metal bugs hop from glassy mutant trees and bubbling black mud oozes after our astronaut heroes, but no Venusians can be found amidst the geodesic architecture and buzzing power plants. What they discover instead is a terrifying conspiracy wrapped in an anti-war parable. Based on a novel by Polish science fiction legend Stanislaw Lem (whose work also inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris), this German science fiction adventure is a visual treat, from the sleek, grand, silver spaceship and a funky purple Venus landscape of alien ruins and crystalline bubbles. Decently (if prosaically) dubbed and trimmed down to a brisk 78 minutes, it's an entertaining triumph of psychedelic art direction and desolate alien weirdness presented in all its brightly colored, widescreen glory. --Sean Axmaker
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