I've actually seen this before! I liked it, so I am glad to see it again. These old space exploration films are good because they capture the vigor and enthusiasm that people had back then, the courage and the will to accomplish the seemingly impossible. And the rocket looks really cool too. 😉🚀✨
That is because no one with any training and scientific knowledge about Venus would have dared to get anywhere near the ship…😂! Better to have sent the “Three Stooges”…Nuk…Nuk…Nuk…😂! Have a great day!
I've watched this film now, posted to this channel because of the restoration of the original but because of the hope that was 50's - 60's Europe after WW II. So much great ideas, the books, animation and films as these really painted a world of this possibility. So, it remains one of my favorite but also important films of this era which shows cooperation and goals to be reached.
This movie is entitled "Der schweigende Stern" and was made by DEFA, the East German film company; this version was dubbed into English and the musical score was replaced as well. It would be nice to see a subtitled version in German, with the original score as well.
When you watch these films and see how elegant well spoken and decent they are compared to what the future turned out too be right now overly aggressive self absorbed people obsessed with social media 😂😂😂😂
Yeah! It often happens when they sell you the idea of paradise in the future and you let them do it for you instead of doing it yourselves... All those years lost dreaming that someone would bring paradise for you. Well, that's the basic idea : keeping you dreaming... hehe ;^)
@@hankyou “Individualism” is highly overrated as we tend to be selfish beings. But team/community effort how things actually get done. No one has gotten to space all by themselves… EVER.
Thank you, Harry. We always look for the best available versions. If the quality is too low, we might decide to not publish a movie. Sometimes we make an exception, if we think the film is interesting enough.
A long of visual eye-candy/some very eerie beautiful images in early SF film. Some of the goings-on in the last act are hard to sort out, some of the problem due to the fact this film has been shortened and dubbed from the original East-German/Polish version. The large-scale perspective shots involving the mix of "perspectivized" props and set treatments with live action (such as at the launch field) are darn impressive, at least in my book. Thanks for presenting such a nice copy of this film!
Great movie it’s been a long time since I’ve seen this I was 16year old when I saw this movie thank you much for uploading this video and movie maybe when of our days we might get their but not end my day’s 😊🚀🛸🚀
This is an interesting sci-fi offering out of Europe. Enjoyable. However, "The Forbidden Planet" (1956) was (pardon the pun) light-years ahead of any other interplanetary drama. Ahead not only in special effects but depth and meaning. Of course, the musical score and sounds by Bebe Barron using the first application of electronics were ground breaking.
My fav early scifi...so many ideas were in Star Trek TOS....I was truly amazed at the entire concept of the film. It's theory of travel, actual flight necessities, & so much more & who can forget the Original Robby the Robot !
@@michaelblankenau6598 That's true! But then what? After black moves pawn, white king has to capture it. Then we're back in the same stalemate boat! No?🤔
Loved the take-off suits. The waist "girdles" and leggings were for pressure to prevent blood pooling, clots, etc. during G-forces occurring in lift-off. So many small details. The writers, producers & directors had a lot of info. I wonder if there was info from Germany's rocket programs during (this is a German production) WW2 "floating" around. For 1960, there was a lot of spot on scenes.
At one time the press, scientists, law enforcement and even politicians and the general population were civilized. I was born in 1952 and you could let a six year old walk around the block at three AM without a worry in the world. I remember the first time my dad told me to lock the door when we left home. 1968
This movie made occasional appearances on Saturday night "Creature Features", on local TV stations here in the U.S. in the 70's. (Where I first saw it). It was only available in crappy off-color film copies with horrible sound. It's amazing to see how beautifully this has been restored. Also I never knew until years later, that it was actually an East German production.
Wow...I'm so amazed at the set decorations. The sun & planets mechanism with their moons is nothing I've seen before, the statues, diversity of cast for 1960...all of it beautiful. That alone raises my impressions of this flick. Of course, I love crapola scifi movies anyway....
LOL ! I just can't get over the scene at 7:20 where the guys calling on the radio from a polar station are all wearing their winter gears in a radio room while their responders on the MOON are all wearing casual clothes! First, the radios reminded me of the nice dispatch room we worked in while the temp. outside would stay below -30 for weeks. We all went around in T-shirts and sneakers (even flip-flops)... Second, the temp. on the moon can be way colder then anything we get on earth. So, they found a way to wear casual on the moon and they can't apply it in their polar stations ? hehe Still a great movie! ;^) edit: My GF just told me she could believe the harsh conditions in the polar stations if it was happening in 2024. It's probably one of our US or even Canadian polar stations that got severely underfunded because their gvnmt sent the money away somewhere... silly gf! haha
20:24 There are no meteorites in outer space. Meteoroids become meteors when they enter the atmosphere. They don't become "meteorites" until they hit the earth's surface. (If they don't completely burn up)
I remember going to the Cinema when I was a young child, and seeing this film. I could remember the Cosmostrator and the mud climbing up the spiral ramped towers, but not much else! Watching it for the first time in more than 60 years, filled in many gaps. I enjoyed the nostalgia. Decent colour film helps. But the script … OMG! 😂😂
The great thing about early Sci-Fi is that they are CHEESIER in having more special effect 'flaws', that allow the child in you to still come out to fill in these 'Cheese Holes' - these 'gaps' - with your own inner child's fantasies. ... Yes, CHEESE IS GOOD!!
@@MassimoSebastiani-uw3qi Lo adoro anche, perché faccio film come "Flight to Mars" (che dimostra che la NASA ci mente su un pianeta sterile e senza vita, quando in realtà brulica di CALDE ragazze marziane!).
Coolest spaceship in the galaxy. Enjoyed the Art Deco scenes. Noted Uhura from Star Trek and the Black dude (can't recall his name) here were onboard communication operators. In one scene he gets a bandage on his head, and a minute later.... voila! bandage does a Houdini! And just like in American films, they always kill off the brother. What's nice about the film is that despite the Cold War, they included an American too. So, commies are not so bad after all?
We can see elements of 2001, A Space Odyssey and Star Trek. And that astronaut looks like Christopher Nolan. It's interesting how they saw possible computer interfaces, not being able to disconnect from the present.
To see the FULL film with 18 mins extra, Look for an East German / Polish release (English subtitles), called - SILENT STAR, I have a copy, it is well worth watching.
Fun Fact: This movie is public domain, in fact all the 50s and 60s science fiction movies you see up on UA-cam are in the public domain so that's cool if someone on UA-cam wants to remake this they can.
The movie was originally titled The Silent Star (1960) and ran for 95 minutes. It was recut and edited down to 78 minutes and released as First Spaceship on Venus in America in black and white. The original dialogue is in German. The entire restored movie is available on DVD in widescreen and stereo soundtrack with German dialogue.
Exactly! This is the color US version with English dubbing. The Silent Star is an alternative English title. The original title is Der Planet des Todes. It's an East German DDR production.
You can see this classic had inspired the first Ridly Scott Alien movie . The big multinational, crew the hostile planet with ancient ruins a bio threat ect and for Star Wars the automimous droid with round dome and tracks a pre cursor R2D2 Star Wars .
I felt that the actors handled this one well. Good communication. Obviously dated, with laughable ideas for computers. Thanks for this, though they are staying away from your upload in droves.
Computers were that size prior to the first PC's. I worked in a department store in the very early '80's when they got their first computer. It was in an apartment sized room with a cold (brrr) A/C as they had a tendency to overheat quickly causing the proverbial "meltdown"... Just for a store. Imagine early computers used for, say, the moon landing in 1969...must have housed it in a huge warehouse 😮 Cheers !
The original, uncut version of the film was finally re-released in the U.S. in 2004 under its original title 'The Silent Star' by the DEFA Film Library of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I purchased it on DVD then. It is widescreen with English subtitles. Is this another restoration that is dubbed?
Brinkman?! Awesomeness radiates perpetually from ancient sages such as these. And the Cosmostrator is the finest faerie tale Spaceship a mind could design. But why an emergency gyro?
Classic Epic Science Fiction Adventure. Directed by Kurt Maetzig. Based on a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem. Made and released in Europe in Polish and German versions in 1960. Released in an English language version in the USA by Crown International Pictures in 1962. Filmed in beautiful dye--transfer Technicolor, and Totalscope (CinemaScope). Made on a budget of $1.5 Million in USD.
This movie is based on book Astronauci (Astronauts) by Stanisław Lem. Amongst other author of Solaris. Movies based on his books don't do the justice maybe with exception of original Solaris by Tarkowsky. As a kugos beginning of Lem novel Niezwyciężony (Invincible) written in '63 is the same as opening of movie Alien.
“I can’t hear you your transmitter is broken.” “He can’t hear us his receiver is broken.” “Earth can’t hear us there’s too much interference.” “Nothing is working but I don’t know why.” “I feel we’re in a bad movie with terrible dialogue.”
I've actually seen this before! I liked it, so I am glad to see it again. These old space exploration films are good because they capture the vigor and enthusiasm that people had back then, the courage and the will to accomplish the seemingly impossible. And the rocket looks really cool too. 😉🚀✨
well said.
Science was the most important subject.
I like how this movie basically just threw a bunch of folks in with no training. I love it lol
That is because no one with any training and scientific knowledge about Venus would have dared to get anywhere near the ship…😂! Better to have sent the “Three Stooges”…Nuk…Nuk…Nuk…😂!
Have a great day!
Compared to current Sci-fi movies with emotionally crippled psychopaths.
I've watched this film now, posted to this channel because of the restoration of the original but because of the hope that was 50's - 60's Europe after WW II. So much great ideas, the books, animation and films as these really painted a world of this possibility. So, it remains one of my favorite but also important films of this era which shows cooperation and goals to be reached.
This was actually pretty good, not as corny as other movies made in the 1950's...
And the ship was magnificent...
Thanks for that movie 👍👍
East German made movie and design! US pirated it and made hardly any changes! FAKT MATTERS
@@Ghana-net Get over it. A film can be made in any country and sold for distrubution in another country. It's not pirating, it's commerce.
I agree
Yoko Tani is absolutely beyond beautiful.....
Maybe to you, not to me.
She looks like Yoko Ono.
@@redfields5070 i suggest you see an eye doctor!
One of my favorites as a kid! I have the German-language full version as well. I thought the Cosmostrader was a really cool, unique spacecraft.
It's a East German movie. US pirated it!
Thank you for this movie, from a time when the future was hopeful, awesome and elegant!
This movie is entitled "Der schweigende Stern" and was made by DEFA, the East German film company; this version was dubbed into English and the musical score was replaced as well. It would be nice to see a subtitled version in German, with the original score as well.
If I were an astronaut, the moment I heard creepy music I'd get the hell outta there!!
That spacecraft looks just like the hood ornament my dad’s 1956 Oldsmobile.
LOL
Saw this with my brother and dad at the theater when it first came out. Totally turned us on to cheering NASA and the Space Era. 👍👍 10👑
When you watch these films and see how elegant well spoken and decent they are compared to what the future turned out too be right now overly aggressive self absorbed people obsessed with social media 😂😂😂😂
Yeah! It often happens when they sell you the idea of paradise in the future and you let them do it for you instead of doing it yourselves... All those years lost dreaming that someone would bring paradise for you. Well, that's the basic idea : keeping you dreaming... hehe ;^)
@@hankyou “Individualism” is highly overrated as we tend to be selfish beings.
But team/community effort how things actually get done.
No one has gotten to space all by themselves… EVER.
its dubbed its terrible
Obsessed with trash.
@pa5287 wrong thread bro
Great quality restoration - sound and visuals👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you, Harry. We always look for the best available versions. If the quality is too low, we might decide to not publish a movie. Sometimes we make an exception, if we think the film is interesting enough.
I love watching these old movies. It amazes me how decent and wholesome the populous was back then. Not a tattoo or nose ring in sight😂
I know this film from MST3K. I've always wanted to see the whole uncut version. Thanks!
Uncut? You need to watch the EAST GERMAN original!
@@Ghana-net That's what I was referring to, but I don't think it's available with English subtitles. This is as close as I can get
Widescreen and cleaned up! Nice 😊
Just imagine a futurist world where humanity works together using logic and science
that's a good one...
Sounds awfully German...
👀🧐 Looks like 🖖VULCANEESE to me 💯🈳
Live Long and Prosper ❗❗
RIP♾️. L.N. aka Spock 🌌
It's never going to happen.
What's that?
A long of visual eye-candy/some very eerie beautiful images in early SF film. Some of the goings-on in the last act are hard to sort out, some of the problem due to the fact this film has been shortened and dubbed from the original East-German/Polish version. The large-scale perspective shots involving the mix of "perspectivized" props and set treatments with live action (such as at the launch field) are darn impressive, at least in my book.
Thanks for presenting such a nice copy of this film!
I have a copy too, 18 mins extra, well worth tracking a copy down, it has English subtitles..
This is the best print I have seen of this film
Great movie it’s been a long time since I’ve seen this I was 16year old when I saw this movie thank you much for uploading this video and movie maybe when of our days we might get their but not end my day’s 😊🚀🛸🚀
My mother took me to see this. I liked Omega I loved Science Fiction, Big Monster and War flicks.
This is an interesting sci-fi offering out of Europe. Enjoyable. However, "The Forbidden Planet" (1956) was (pardon the pun) light-years ahead of any other interplanetary drama. Ahead not only in special effects but depth and meaning. Of course, the musical score and sounds by Bebe Barron using the first application of electronics were ground breaking.
My fav early scifi...so many ideas were in Star Trek TOS....I was truly amazed at the entire concept of the film. It's theory of travel, actual flight necessities, & so much more & who can forget the Original Robby the Robot !
Venus such a hospitable planet . A surface temperature that would melt lead .
Great Movie, Thank you for uploading it!!
The chess game around 24:00 shows Orloff scored a stalemate! The computer was wrong! 😂
The computer cheats! lol
No . Black can move the pawn after White played Kf7
@@michaelblankenau6598 That's true! But then what? After black moves pawn, white king has to capture it. Then we're back in the same stalemate boat! No?🤔
At the least, Omega is wrong about "mate next move".
Loved the take-off suits. The waist "girdles" and leggings were for pressure to prevent blood pooling, clots, etc. during G-forces occurring in lift-off. So many small details. The writers, producers & directors had a lot of info. I wonder if there was info from Germany's rocket programs during (this is a German production) WW2 "floating" around. For 1960, there was a lot of spot on scenes.
Very good space. Movie. 🎉🎉🎉 👌😉
How civilized the press and the scientists and not a politician in sight, boy did they get it wrong lol.
At one time the press, scientists, law enforcement and even politicians and the general population were civilized.
I was born in 1952 and you could let a six year old walk around the block at three AM without a worry in the world. I remember the first time my dad told me to lock the door when we left home. 1968
This movie made occasional appearances on Saturday night "Creature Features", on local TV stations here in the U.S. in the 70's. (Where I first saw it). It was only available in crappy off-color film copies with horrible sound. It's amazing to see how beautifully this has been restored. Also I never knew until years later, that it was actually an East German production.
Wow...I'm so amazed at the set decorations. The sun & planets mechanism with their moons is nothing I've seen before, the statues, diversity of cast for 1960...all of it beautiful. That alone raises my impressions of this flick. Of course, I love crapola scifi movies anyway....
LOL ! I just can't get over the scene at 7:20 where the guys calling on the radio from a polar station are all wearing their winter gears in a radio room while their responders on the MOON are all wearing casual clothes!
First, the radios reminded me of the nice dispatch room we worked in while the temp. outside would stay below -30 for weeks. We all went around in T-shirts and sneakers (even flip-flops)...
Second, the temp. on the moon can be way colder then anything we get on earth.
So, they found a way to wear casual on the moon and they can't apply it in their polar stations ? hehe
Still a great movie! ;^)
edit: My GF just told me she could believe the harsh conditions in the polar stations if it was happening in 2024. It's probably one of our US or even Canadian polar stations that got severely underfunded because their gvnmt sent the money away somewhere...
silly gf! haha
They made this all up! Amazing!
20:24 There are no meteorites in outer space. Meteoroids become meteors when they enter the atmosphere. They don't become "meteorites" until they hit the earth's surface. (If they don't completely burn up)
Okay, Elon, build a rocket that cool-looking. 🚀🚀🚀🚀
I just hope it's better built than his cars! lol
Elon Musk é o melhor exemplo de um idiota que se tornou bilionario herdando bilhõez do pai.
Instead of his giant willie ship
Jealous of elon? Cuz you're poor lol
He already did, it was a Tesla Roadster.
I love the big hair of the professor
Hilarious costumes, instruments, vehicles and environment.
👍. Great Movie & Actors.😊
I remember going to the Cinema when I was a young child, and seeing this film. I could remember the Cosmostrator and the mud climbing up the spiral ramped towers, but not much else! Watching it for the first time in more than 60 years, filled in many gaps. I enjoyed the nostalgia. Decent colour film helps. But the script … OMG! 😂😂
Amazing film ❤
The jet looked like vintage 50's design.
Mr. Sulu is the narrator?!?
It's kind of amazing that you can spot a Russian hairstyle from back then a mile away!
Loved these movies then lovem now
The great thing about early Sci-Fi is that they are CHEESIER in having more special effect 'flaws', that allow the child in you to still come out to fill in these 'Cheese Holes' - these 'gaps' - with your own inner child's fantasies. ... Yes, CHEESE IS GOOD!!
@@MassimoSebastiani-uw3qi Lo adoro anche, perché faccio film come "Flight to Mars" (che dimostra che la NASA ci mente su un pianeta sterile e senza vita, quando in realtà brulica di CALDE ragazze marziane!).
Coolest spaceship in the galaxy. Enjoyed the Art Deco scenes. Noted Uhura from Star Trek and the Black dude (can't recall his name) here were onboard communication operators. In one scene he gets a bandage on his head, and a minute later.... voila! bandage does a Houdini! And just like in American films, they always kill off the brother. What's nice about the film is that despite the Cold War, they included an American too. So, commies are not so bad after all?
We can see elements of 2001, A Space Odyssey and Star Trek. And that astronaut looks like Christopher Nolan.
It's interesting how they saw possible computer interfaces, not being able to disconnect from the present.
Yup. And pirated from East Germany.. FAKT MATTERS
for the first time I've watched a nerdy sci-fi
A very creative design for the spaceship, coming out of the tin-can rockets era.
An international team and no cringe woke speeches. Hurrah!
Those damn dirty commies with their feminism and racial equality 😢
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and then some.
The spaceship calls the Moon station. The woman with the tubes in her ears say..."Receiving you..over and out" 😂
To see the FULL film with 18 mins extra, Look for an East German / Polish release (English subtitles), called - SILENT STAR, I have a copy, it is well worth watching.
They really didnt take acting too seriously back then. Its great.
These old movies may be cheesy but I still seem to enjoy them if left undisturbed and undistracted.
Thanks for the video.
🙈🙉🙊 😎 🇺🇸
The metallic insects are drones. Maybe this movie gave the inventors of the drone, got the idea from this movie.
Oh, this got dopey!
No!!
Its all real. This movie proves it!!😊
A great classic ...... I'd like to see. ...
' Frankenstein the true story' in the future..... Please
George Lucas took the opening credits of this to Star Wars.
I’m watching this across New Mexico desert. Cruise… so cool. Haa
Very amusing to see legendary director Mr Nolan her 08:00 😮😂
set in 1985,,,1950s were actually the top of the pyramid in standard of living!
A big Cinemascope colour production !
Threw me off at first. But the movie became fairly interesting once they reached Venus.
Fun Fact: This movie is public domain, in fact all the 50s and 60s science fiction movies you see up on UA-cam are in the public domain so that's cool if someone on UA-cam wants to remake this they can.
Meybe we can learn from these great Explorers!
Funny that their science was completely wrong, however, they make a good story worth watching. 😊
wasnt wrong at the time it was cutting edge
The movie was originally titled The Silent Star (1960) and ran for 95 minutes. It was recut and edited down to 78 minutes and released as First Spaceship on Venus in America in black and white. The original dialogue is in German. The entire restored movie is available on DVD in widescreen and stereo soundtrack with German dialogue.
Exactly! This is the color US version with English dubbing. The Silent Star is an alternative English title. The original title is Der Planet des Todes. It's an East German DDR production.
Buena película muy entretenida
You can see this classic had inspired the first Ridly Scott Alien movie . The big multinational, crew the hostile planet with ancient ruins a bio threat ect and for Star Wars the automimous droid with round dome and tracks a pre cursor R2D2 Star Wars .
It's a EAST GERMAN movie!
Anyone know the joke about "how much does a herring weigh"? LMAO 😂
☮️💖🌻
It looks more futuristic than Star Trek
Who is this "Einschtein" guy they mention around 4:20?
I first saw this film in the early 1960s. This version must be a remastered or computer modified version?
Watched Galaxina and saw the clips from this for my caregiver and myself to watch on Wednesday.
4:44. Is that a giant hamburger?
The temperature on Venus can reach 900 Degrees Fahrenheit. I highly doubt a spaceship could handle that let alone men walking around on it…
I felt that the actors handled this one well. Good communication. Obviously dated, with laughable ideas for computers. Thanks for this, though they are staying away from your upload in droves.
Computers were that size prior to the first PC's. I worked in a department store in the very early '80's when they got their first computer. It was in an apartment sized room with a cold (brrr) A/C as they had a tendency to overheat quickly causing the proverbial "meltdown"... Just for a store. Imagine early computers used for, say, the moon landing in 1969...must have housed it in a huge warehouse 😮
Cheers !
They've got french fry trays on their heads.
I thought the pace was too slow but then back then they weren’t constantly stimulated by smart phones
A 1960 film depicting how a manned trip to Venus might occur.
The original, uncut version of the film was finally re-released in the U.S. in 2004 under its original title 'The Silent Star' by the DEFA Film Library of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I purchased it on DVD then. It is widescreen with English subtitles. Is this another restoration that is dubbed?
This is the shortened and English-dubbed version that was released by Crown International Pictures and shown in U.S. theaters in 1960.
I've seen an earlier version of this film. It was a bad transfer, color smeared and washed out. This looks much better.
I bought this on dvd Years ago. This one is far better.
Brinkman?! Awesomeness radiates perpetually from ancient sages such as these. And the Cosmostrator is the finest faerie tale Spaceship a mind could design. But why an emergency gyro?
Good luck Vatos!
Actually this is not bad considering what American International was producing then.
Classic Epic Science Fiction Adventure.
Directed by Kurt Maetzig. Based on a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem. Made and released in Europe in Polish and German versions in 1960. Released in an English language version in the USA by Crown International Pictures in 1962. Filmed in beautiful dye--transfer Technicolor, and Totalscope (CinemaScope). Made on a budget of $1.5 Million in USD.
Whoever thought up the name "Cosmostrator" deserves a medal! It's the worst name ever invented for a rocket ship.
I named my shed that lol
Cosmostrator
and it's sister ship Menstrator.
Didn’t know Christopher Nolan’s dad was an actor 2:35😬
Still has superior Special effects and acting than The Expend4bles ...
That was the result the last time I played my computer at chess.
This movie is based on book Astronauci (Astronauts) by Stanisław Lem. Amongst other author of Solaris. Movies based on his books don't do the justice maybe with exception of original Solaris by Tarkowsky. As a kugos beginning of Lem novel Niezwyciężony (Invincible) written in '63 is the same as opening of movie Alien.
Thanks for the great info.
How many vehicles could they possibly pack in that space ship? 😂
isnt that ernest borgnine?
he looks like his german brother lol
did anyone else see the minecraft blocks lol
I saw this in a movie theater in the 1970s. It's actually not horrible if you ignore that 95% of the science is wrong.
“I can’t hear you your transmitter is broken.”
“He can’t hear us his receiver is broken.”
“Earth can’t hear us there’s too much interference.”
“Nothing is working but I don’t know why.”
“I feel we’re in a bad movie with terrible dialogue.”
Cherry red bottom... Priceless!
They say that You never forget the first rocket in Uranus.
Ginger or Mary Ann... Venus or Mars... Mary Ann.
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Give me an "A"! Give me an "M"!
Professor Heringway?
About a pound and a half.