--- product_id: 48263394 title: "FRAU IM MOND (WOMAN IN THE MOON) (Masters of Cinema) BLU-RAY" price: "VT8630" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/48263394-frau-im-mond-woman-in-the-moon-masters-of-cinema store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # FRAU IM MOND (WOMAN IN THE MOON) (Masters of Cinema) BLU-RAY **Price:** VT8630 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** FRAU IM MOND (WOMAN IN THE MOON) (Masters of Cinema) BLU-RAY - **How much does it cost?** VT8630 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/48263394-frau-im-mond-woman-in-the-moon-masters-of-cinema) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Frau im Mond. [Woman in the Moon.] is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the valleys of the moon. (b) A tri-polar potboiler of a picture that manages to combine espionage tale, serial melodrama, and comic-book sci-fi into a storyline that is by turns delirious, hushed, and deranged. (c) A movie so rife with narrative contradiction and visual ingenuity that it could only be the work of one filmmaker: Fritz Lang. In this, 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. When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus (both of whom had previously starred in Lang s Spione), finally reach their impossible destination, they find themselves stranded in a lunar labyrinth without walls where emotions run scattershot, and the new goal becomes survival. A modern Daedalus tale which uncannily foretold Germany s wartime push into rocket-science, Frau im Mond. is as much a warning-sign against human hubris as it is a hopeful depiction of mankind s potential. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this culmination of Fritz Lang s silent cinema, restored to its near-original length. BLU RAY FEATURES: Gorgeous 1080p transfer of the F. W. Murnau-Stiftung restoration Original German intertitles with newly-translated optional English subtitles The First Scientific Science-Fiction Film a German documentary about Frau im Mond. made by Gabriele Jacobs [15:00] Review: M-A-G-N-I-F-I-C-E-N-T !! An impressive silent SF film, which inspired Werner von Braun and dozens other rocket scientists - This is the second of great silent SF movies made by Fritz Lang and although not as immensely great and universaly known as "Metropolis", it is certainly a very major film! Below, you will find some more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS. PRECISION: this is the review of "Masters of Cinema" restored 163 minutes long version of this film. "Frau im Mond" begins with the great dream of a manned expedition to the Moon shared by two unlikely friends. One of them, professor Georg Mannfeldt (Klaus Pohl), is an old scientist, considered by his pairs as a madman or a fraud and living in most abject poverty. The second, Wolf Helius (Willy Fritsch), is a gifted engineer and very succesful businessman, owner of a major industrial company. Together they decide to build a giant rocket and go to the Moon, looking for gold which they hope will cover the immense cost of this enterprise. This is described in the very beginning of the film. The performance of Klaus Pohl as an old half-mad scientist is absolutely unique - those first minutes of the film, you really WANT to see them! What happens next? Well, quite a lot indeed, because this is a long film. Some sinister forces will intervene, acting through The Man, a nameless archi-villain played magistrally by actor Fritz Rasp, who with his unique physionomy and great talent steals absolutely every scene he appears in (he also played a quite sinister character in "Metropolis"). As the title clearly suggests, a young woman will also play a considerable role - this is in fact one of the first films in which a woman who is also a serious scientist appears... There will be a love triangle, lots of trouble during the space trip, more trouble on the Moon and a very good, VERY surprising ending. All of this under the curious but stoic regard of a very zen mouse, played by Die Maus Josephine (as stated in the credits)...))) This is a long film, but I didn't feel the time passing. The performance of actors is absolutely brilliant! The unique character of talent needed to act in silent movies gives to this film a charm impossible to find in modern cinema. Passion, hope, love, despair, anger, cruelty, lust, terror, disgust, ecstasy - you name it, they are all here, silently screaming at us from the screen. The plot is not bad at all, especially considering that this film is a pioneering work. Description of space travel is of course deliciously silly, but that also gives this film a very unique savour. This film is also the first one to show the countdown to the launch of a rocket - pretty impressive, considering that this film was made in 1929. The very solemn moment of launching of the rocket is a great and very emotional cinema scene - and it certainly greatly impressed and inspired many young students, who were later to become rocket scientists in German V-1 and V-2 program in Peenemunde, beginning with a certain Werner von Braun, who saw this film, eyes wide-open, at the tender age of 17. In fact, the first V-2 rocket ever launched had the image of "Frau im Mond" painted on it... I loved this film greatly and I am absolutely keeping preciously this DVD. I recommend it with all my heart. Enjoy! Review: Remarkable Film. - Really enjoyed this old silent movie. Apart from a decent story line, the images and effects depicting a rocket flight to and subsequent landing on the moon must have been some achievement in 1928. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00KX66N66 | | Aspect Ratio | 4:3 - 1.33:1 | | Best Sellers Rank | 2,418 in DVD & Blu-ray ( See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray ) 44 in World Cinema (DVD & Blu-ray) 201 in Fantasy (DVD & Blu-ray) 363 in Science Fiction (DVD & Blu-ray) | | Country of origin | United Kingdom | | Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (108) | | Director | Fritz LANG | | Is discontinued by manufacturer | No | | Item model number | EKA70143 | | Language | English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unknown (Dolby Digital 2.0) | | Media Format | Blu-ray | | Number of discs | 2 | | Product Dimensions | 20 x 15 x 2 cm; 28.35 g | | Release date | 25 Aug. 2014 | | Run time | 2 hours and 50 minutes | | Studio | Eureka Entertainment Ltd | | Subtitles: | English, German | ## Product Details - **Contributor:** Fritz LANG - **Format:** Blu-ray - **Genre:** World Cinema - **Language:** German - **Runtime:** 2 hours and 50 minutes ## Images ![FRAU IM MOND (WOMAN IN THE MOON) (Masters of Cinema) BLU-RAY - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Vy0S3Q0pL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ M-A-G-N-I-F-I-C-E-N-T !! An impressive silent SF film, which inspired Werner von Braun and dozens other rocket scientists *by D***K on 5 April 2013* This is the second of great silent SF movies made by Fritz Lang and although not as immensely great and universaly known as "Metropolis", it is certainly a very major film! Below, you will find some more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS. PRECISION: this is the review of "Masters of Cinema" restored 163 minutes long version of this film. "Frau im Mond" begins with the great dream of a manned expedition to the Moon shared by two unlikely friends. One of them, professor Georg Mannfeldt (Klaus Pohl), is an old scientist, considered by his pairs as a madman or a fraud and living in most abject poverty. The second, Wolf Helius (Willy Fritsch), is a gifted engineer and very succesful businessman, owner of a major industrial company. Together they decide to build a giant rocket and go to the Moon, looking for gold which they hope will cover the immense cost of this enterprise. This is described in the very beginning of the film. The performance of Klaus Pohl as an old half-mad scientist is absolutely unique - those first minutes of the film, you really WANT to see them! What happens next? Well, quite a lot indeed, because this is a long film. Some sinister forces will intervene, acting through The Man, a nameless archi-villain played magistrally by actor Fritz Rasp, who with his unique physionomy and great talent steals absolutely every scene he appears in (he also played a quite sinister character in "Metropolis"). As the title clearly suggests, a young woman will also play a considerable role - this is in fact one of the first films in which a woman who is also a serious scientist appears... There will be a love triangle, lots of trouble during the space trip, more trouble on the Moon and a very good, VERY surprising ending. All of this under the curious but stoic regard of a very zen mouse, played by Die Maus Josephine (as stated in the credits)...))) This is a long film, but I didn't feel the time passing. The performance of actors is absolutely brilliant! The unique character of talent needed to act in silent movies gives to this film a charm impossible to find in modern cinema. Passion, hope, love, despair, anger, cruelty, lust, terror, disgust, ecstasy - you name it, they are all here, silently screaming at us from the screen. The plot is not bad at all, especially considering that this film is a pioneering work. Description of space travel is of course deliciously silly, but that also gives this film a very unique savour. This film is also the first one to show the countdown to the launch of a rocket - pretty impressive, considering that this film was made in 1929. The very solemn moment of launching of the rocket is a great and very emotional cinema scene - and it certainly greatly impressed and inspired many young students, who were later to become rocket scientists in German V-1 and V-2 program in Peenemunde, beginning with a certain Werner von Braun, who saw this film, eyes wide-open, at the tender age of 17. In fact, the first V-2 rocket ever launched had the image of "Frau im Mond" painted on it... I loved this film greatly and I am absolutely keeping preciously this DVD. I recommend it with all my heart. Enjoy! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Remarkable Film. *by C***E on 24 December 2020* Really enjoyed this old silent movie. Apart from a decent story line, the images and effects depicting a rocket flight to and subsequent landing on the moon must have been some achievement in 1928. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Badly paced but enjoyable never the less. *by S***E on 10 December 2017* After enjoying Fritz Lang's Metropolis more then I anticipated, I thought to check out his follow up sci-fi epic Frau Im Mond. It is a film that is a lot more interesting than it is enjoyable to watch. Don't take that as a bad thing because it really isn't. What I mean by this is that much like every other epic film from Lang, Frau Im Mond has a serious attention to detail and to squeeze all that detail onto film it was stretched out to a fairly lengthy running time. Through out the film you'll see a short crime drama, an epic space ship missile launch and some dramatic times on the moon. The detail put into the space travel portion of the film is so ahead of its time that I found it genuinely fascinating. From the way they handled the launch itself, strapping down for G-forces, moving around and eating zero gravity to keeping their feet weighed down on the moon. It's something every science fiction buff should see. The story itself starts off like a slow paced crime drama as we see the plans for the rocket, space travel etc. being pinched, only for the original owners to effectively be black mailed into joining these criminals in a space launch. There is gold on the moon you see and these bad guys want it all for themselves. The plot moves on into space, a charming but awkward love triangle develops and the then rounds off with a fairly dramatic ending featuring deception, love and self sacrifice. Over all, the film could do with a little trim to make the first part flow better. But once they start preparing for launch the story picks up and is considerably more enjoyable to watch. Unlike a lot of silent films releases today, I wouldn't consider this film an all time classic like Metropolis, Die Nibelungen or Nosferatu. But it is well made and certainly has its moments. There is only so much appeal for non sci-fi fans and it won't attract anyone who dislikes the genre. But it is still a really well made movie, looks incredibly by today's standards and is worth checking out if space and science fiction is your thing. ## Frequently Bought Together - FRAU IM MOND (WOMAN IN THE MOON) (Masters of Cinema) BLU-RAY - DIE NIBELUNGEN (Masters of Cinema) (BLU-RAY) [1924] - DER MÜDE TOD (Destiny) (Masters of Cinema) (DVD & BLU-RAY DUAL FORMAT) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/48263394-frau-im-mond-woman-in-the-moon-masters-of-cinema](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/48263394-frau-im-mond-woman-in-the-moon-masters-of-cinema) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-11*