1929 · sci-fi · drama · german
Woman in the Moon
Directed by Fritz Lang2h 50m1929
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Our read: Woman in the Moon (1929) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded sci-fi · drama · german entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle sci-fi / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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