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Plot summary
Professor Manfeldt once told a scientific conference that the Moon probably holds gold, and the academics laughed at him. Wolf Helius, an entrepreneur drawn to space travel, seeks the professor out and takes his work seriously. A gang of businessmen takes an interest too, sending a spy who calls himself Walter Turner. Helius's assistant Windegger has just become engaged to Friede Velten, Helius's other assistant; Helius, who loves Friede in secret, stays away from their engagement party. A woman posing as a violet seller helps the gang steal Manfeldt's research, and Helius's home is burgled as well. Turner then gives Helius a choice: take the gang's man on the Moon voyage, or they will destroy his rocket.
Cast
- Alfred Lorettoas Zwei eindeutige Existenzen
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Woman in the Moon (1929)
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- The Nazis banned Woman in the Moon in Germany from 1933 to 1945, during World War II, because the film's rocket design was too similar to their secret V-2 project.
- The film was popular with rocket scientists in Wernher von Braun's circle, and the first successfully launched V-2 rocket, at the Peenemünde development facility, carried the Frau im Mond logo painted on its base.
- Rocket scientist Hermann Oberth advised on Woman in the Moon and had originally intended to build a working rocket for use in the film, but time and technical constraints prevented it.
- Woman in the Moon presented the basics of rocket travel, including the use of a multi-stage rocket, to a mass audience for the first time.
- Oberth also advised Hergé on Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon, which have plot points strongly influenced by Woman in the Moon.
- Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow, which deals with the V-2 rockets, refers to Woman in the Moon along with several other classic German silent films.
