211 - FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS
(USA release; 1960; East Germany / Poland; NR; 80m)

a.k.a. DER SCHWEIGENDE STERN (original/E. Germany)
a.k.a. DER STILLE STERN
a.k.a. THE SILENT STAR
a.k.a. MILCZACA GWIAZDA
a.k.a. MOLCZACI KRZYDLA
a.k.a. PLANET OF THE DEAD
a.k.a. SPACESHIP VENUS DOES NOT REPLY

Ad: "You are there...on man's most exciting, most incredible journey!"
Ad: "This Is A First! Fantastic! Unforgettable!"

Plot: Difficulties ensue when a multi-national space expedition goes to Venus.

Prod/USA: Hugo Grimaldi
(prod/dir/420-The Human Duplicators;
ed/412-Hercules and the Captive Women;
902-The Phantom Planet)
Prod/USA: Paul Schreibman
(Gigantis the Fire Monster)
Prod/USA: Edmund Goldman
(Gigantis the Fire Monster)
Prod/USA: Newton P. Jacobs (The Hearse)
Dir/Scr: Kurt Maetzig
(Marriage in the Shadows)
Dir: Hieronim Przybyl (Milion za Laure)
Scr: Jan Fathke (Jadzia)
Scr: Wolfgang Kohlhaase (Solo Sunny)
Scr: Gunter Reisch (Anton der Zauberer)
Scr: Guenther Rucker (Der Dritte)
Scr: Alexander Stenbock-Fermor (Semmelweis: Retter dur Mutter)
Scr: Joachim Barckhausen (Semmelweis: Retter dur Mutter)
Scr/Sto: Stanislaw Lem*
Cin: Joachim Hasler (cin/dir/Gejagt Bis Zum Morgen)
Ed: Lena Neumann (Wozzeck)
SFX: Ernst Kuntstmann (Metropolis)
SFX: Vera Kuntstmann
SFX: Jan Olejniczak
SFX: Helmut Grewald (cin/Taubenjule)
SFX: Martin Sonnebend (prod/Isabel auf der Treppe)
PDes: Alfred Hirschmeier (Fruehlingssinfonie)
PDes: Anatol Radzinowicz (Popioly)
Score: Andrzej Markowski (Popioly)
Score/USA: Gordon Zahler
(412/420/902; 104-Women of the Prehistoric Planet)

Sumiko Ogimura / Yoko Tani (Marco Polo)
Harringway / Oldrick Lukes (Lemonade Joe)
Orloff / Ignacy Machowski (The Yellow Slippers)
Talua / Julius Ongewe
Durand / Michal Postnikow
Sikarna / Kurt Rackelman (Oberwachmeister Borck)
Brinkman / Gunther Simon (Vergesst Mir Meine Traudel Nicht)
Tchen Yu / Tang-Hua-Ta
Joan Moran / Lucyna Winnicka (Joan of the Angels)

Trivia: Born in 1921, Polish physician and prolific sci-fi writer STANISLAW LEM wrote the novel Astronauci a.k.a. The Astronauts in 1951, which he helped convert to the screenplay for FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS. He repudiated the film after seeing it. Can you blame him?

Last Updated: 6/20/1999