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When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.
Yôko Tani
- Die japanische Ärztin
- (as Yoko Tani)
- …
Mikhail N. Postnikov
- Sowjetischer Astronaut
- (as Michail N. Postnikow)
- …
Hua-Ta Tang
- Chinesischer Linguist
- (as Tang Hua-Ta)
- …
Lucyna Winnicka
- Fernsehreporterin
- (as Lucina Winnicka)
- …
Klaus Bamberg
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Fredy Barten
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Christoph Beyertt
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Karl Brenk
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Fritz Decho
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Karen Fredersdorf
- Brinkmanns Mutter
- (uncredited)
Karl-Helge Hofstadt
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Peter Kiwitt
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaMeant to be a high-profile release by DEFA for the tenth anniversary of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
- GoofsThe narrator mentions that one of the crew has created a special food formula for the crew to be able to consume and digest in zero gravity, yet everyone is walking around as if on planet Earth. This is not a goof, since (at least in the original German version) after a time spent in zero gravity, they show the crew activating an artificial gravity field, which allows them to walk around as if they were on Earth.
- Alternate versionsThis film was released in the United States as _First Spaceship on Venus (1962)_. This version was edited down to 80 minutes, dubbed into English, and had Andrzej Markowski's score replaced by a stock score prepared by Gordon Zahler of the General Music Corporation.
- ConnectionsEdited into Tela Class: Uma Odisseia Brazuca (2008)
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FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (aka "The Silent Star") was a collaborative effort between film studios in East Germany and Poland and picked up by Crown-International Pictures for a 1962 US release. Far ahead of its time FSOV delivers the pacifist message in no uncertain terms. An international crew lands on the planet Venus to discover that a war has completely destroyed its inhabitants. Venusian landscapes are surrealistic and wonderous to behold and the spaceship itself gets my vote as the coolest cinematic craft of all time. The late Japanese/French actress and model Yoko Tani leads the cast and is fetching to look at and enjoy. Englewood Entertainment once again has delivered a flawless print of this film and is available in VHS or on DVD and is letterboxed at proper aspect ratio. The film is a bit slow even at its 78 minutes (originally it ran at 130 minutes!) This critic would love to see the uncut version someday. Superior sci-fi from the Eastern Bloc!
- csdietrich
- Feb 16, 2001
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- The Silent Star
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- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was First Spaceship on Venus (1960) officially released in India in English?
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