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Woman in the Moon
In this, Fritz Lang’s final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite’s vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold. The story of a dastardly cartel of spies who engage in an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of stealing the Earth's vast (and largely theoretical) gold reserves. When the crew, led by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus (both of whom previously starred in Lang's Spies), finally achieve their impossible goal, they find themselves in a lunar labyrinth without walls - where emotions dissipate and survival becomes the new goal. Woman in the Moon, this modern-day story of Daedalus, which unexpectedly foreshadowed Germany's eminent wartime interest in rocket science, is as much a warning against human hubris as it is a hopeful picture of human potential.
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In this, Fritz Lang’s final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite’s vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold.
The story of a dastardly cartel of spies who engage in an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of stealing the Earth's vast (and largely theoretical) gold reserves. When the crew, led by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus (both of whom previously starred in Lang's Spies), finally achieve their impossible goal, they find themselves in a lunar labyrinth without walls - where emotions dissipate and survival becomes the new goal. Woman in the Moon, this modern-day story of Daedalus, which unexpectedly foreshadowed Germany's eminent wartime interest in rocket science, is as much a warning against human hubris as it is a hopeful picture of human potential.
