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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0720229911672
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Label: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 23, 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 75183
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1962
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Product Description:
A film by Kurt Maetzig, based on Stanislaw Lem's novel The Astronauts. In this celebrated sci-fi classic, a mysterious object from outer space is found in the Gobi desert. An international expedition, dispatched to Venus to decipher the message it contains, discovers it is a declaration of war-- on Earth!
The first sci-fi film made in East Germany by the legendary DEFA film studio, THE SILENT STAR is a masterpiece in story, art and set design, and technology and was the forerunner of 2001: A Space Odyssey and, later, Contact. Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris) and made during the U.S./U.S.S.R. space race set off by the Sputnik launch.
Amazon.com:
In 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Boring Scientists Shoot Tar Bubbles
Yeah, that should be the real title of this turkey -- I've read where this is a German/Polish foreign film, 1959. The story happens in the 1980s where we have a space station on the moon and we all live in peaceful harmony, which makes for a boring passage on board this ship. No one is a real hero, and although there are hints of a love triangle, nothing materializes there either.
I did like the take on the Venusians -- a civilization that was on the brink of atomizing the Earth, ... Read More
Rating: - Worthless ...go for the seperate releases
Unfortunately, even though First Spaceship on Venus was filmed in 2.35:1, the film is presented here in 1.33:1... might be less!!!!
I can't even begin to speak about the second film.
The case reads Fully Restored...hhhmmm.... do they mean they took it out of the garbage can and ran in through a projector onto a wall, then filmed it with a digital camera!?!.... Yep, thats not an overstatement... its that bad.
Beside the horrendous quality of the presentation, both films are highly ... Read More
Rating: - Venus God of War?
First Spaceship on Venus There's something enjoyably unique about Japanese Sci Fi that's hard to identify. It shows in the early Godzilla and Mothra films, then there's Gamera that hot blooded turtle. Then there's the brilliant Mysterions and Battle in Outer Space. More recently it shows in their best Anime films like the quite intelligent android naval gazing in the Ghost in the Shell series (Star Trek's Data with soul).
The Brits? Well they make intelligent, clever if talky Sci Fis ( the ... Read More
Rating:  - Vhs Quality Dvd disc.
The movie was a good entertaining movie when I was a kid. This dvd product looks like a 1985 vhs quality tape. It is of extremely poor quality. The movie is a decent and intelligent movie. I am sending the dvd? Back.
Rating:  - first spaceship on venus
i hope i got this movie right i liked it alot at first it seems to be made by foreign type and has some asian person, black person and whites in it, it like star trek thing which i like. it has touch of what venus must of or could of been like and it could be what another palnet is like somewere in our galaxy. if like older stuff this is another winner, the polish guy smart to who did this movie. i think there a robot whois real short. if your IQ is above 150 you will understand some of it better and if ... Read More
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