First Spaceship On Venus (1960) [Science Fiction] [Adventure]
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- First Spaceship on Venus, (a.k.a. in German: Der Schweigende Stern; in Polish: Milcząca Gwiazda; in English: The Silent Star (also Planet of the Dead and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply) is a 1960 East German/Polish color science fiction film, directed by Kurt Maetzig, that stars Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe, and Yoko Tani. The film was first released by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb in East Germany. It is based on the science fiction novel The Astronauts by Stanisław Lem.
In 1962 the much-shortened, 79 minute, dubbed release from Crown International Pictures substituted the title "First Spaceship on Venus" for the English-speaking market. The film was released theatrically in the U.S. in 1962 on a double bill with the 1958 Japanese film Varan the Unbelievable. First Spaceship On Venus was later featured in episodes of both Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Cinema Insomnia.
The movie starts in 1985 when engineers involved in an industrial project to irrigate the Gobi Desert accidentally unearth a mysterious and apparently artificial "spool". When found to be made of a material unknown on Earth, the spool is circumstantially linked to the Tunguska explosion of 1908. The spool is seized on as evidence that the explosion, originally blamed on a meteor, was actually caused by an alien spaceship.
Professor Harringway deduces the craft must have come from Venus. The spool itself is determined to be a flight recorder and is partially decoded by an international team of scientists led by Professor Sikarna and Dr. Tchen Yu. When radio greetings sent to Venus go unanswered, Harringway announces that a journey to Venus is the only alternative. The recently completed Soviet spaceship Cosmostrator intended to voyage to Mars, is redirected to Venus, a 30- to 31-day journey. During the voyage, Sikarna works furiously to translate the alien message using the spaceship's computer.
When their spaceship nears Venus, radio interference from the planet cuts the crew off from Earth. By then, Sikarna's efforts lead to a stunning discovery: The spool describes a Venusian plan to irradiate the Earth's surface, with the extermination of mankind being the prelude to an invasion. Rather than containing a "cosmic document", as had been expected, the spool bears a cold-blooded message of destruction. Harringway convinces the crew to press on towards Venus rather than return to Earth with news that would panic mankind.
With the ship's robot, Omega, American astronaut Brinkman pilots a one-man landing craft. On the ground, he encounters an industrial complex and finds small recording devices that look like insects. The rest of the crew follows when Cosmostrator lands, but they find no Venusian life forms. Journeying across the planet, they find the remains of a deserted and blasted city centered around a huge crater, signs of a catastrophic explosion so intense that shadowy forms of humanoid Venusians are permanently burned on to the walls of the surviving buildings.
The Venusians are gone, but their machines remain functioning, including the radiation-bombardment machine intended for Earth. One of the scientists accidentally triggers the weapon, leading to a frantic effort by the Earthmen to disarm it. Tchen Yu lowers Talua, the ship's communication officer, into the Venusian command center. When Tchen Yu's suit is punctured, Brinkman ventures out to save him. Before he can reach Yu, Talua succeeds in reversing the weapon. Unfortunately, this also reverses Venus' gravitational field, flinging Cosmostrator into space. Brinkman is also repelled off the planet, beyond the reach of the spaceship, while Talua and Tchen Yu remain marooned on Venus. The surviving crew members must return to Earth, where they warn humanity about the dangers of atomic weapons.
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Directed by Kurt Maetzig, written by J. Fethke, W. Kohlhasse, G. Reisch, G. Rücker and A. Stenbock-Fermor, screenplay by Kurt Maetzig and J. Barkhauer, based on "Astronauci" by Stanisław Lem, starring Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe and Yoko Tani.
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This film resembles my recolections of a russian film called Planeta Guba. Also about a trip to venus. It was dubbed into english and on cinema screens in early 60s. The tree effects are very similar.
Crown used to 'borrow' effects from anywhere - splicing in footage of Eastern European space sagas to save what money they could from their $800 budget.
Timeless Classic Films I would call love to see it but no picture here, what happened to the picture!
Love this movies
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I saw this on TV once several years ago and have been looking for it ever since.
Having just built the scale model of the Cosmostrator by Pegasus, I had to finally watch the movie. Don't know how I missed it over my 67 years. 😊
I saw this film as a child on GDR television with German translation. At that time it was broadcast in several episodes. That was almost 50 years ago ... but I can still remember some unmistakable scenes to this day.
This is what I grew up watching! I miss these kinds of movies
I missed those times. My grandparents raised me in Front Royal Virginia, while my Dad was in the navy in the late '50s to mid '60s. I had a very happy childhood; one that I miss now.
@@paullowman9131adulthood that bad?
Love these old space movies , it great
One of the BEST Old Sci-Fi Movies!
This has got to be the number one Schlack sci-fi movie of all time.
I saw this in 1962 at a drive-in in New Jersey as a young child.
An old (60s) joint East German/Polish film. Imaginative sets, tech, ship, etc. Better than expected.
German movie
@@dariusznowak9599 East German / Polish as TheMrFarkle stated.
And AMAZING acting.
The ship effects are better than most sci-fi movies of this era. 😎👍
A movie that's bearable to watch and listen to and zero screaming or NYC accents. Awesome.
And it's a movie that is believable. Not in 1985 but maybe in 2035. The dialogue is very good for the period.
True that.
I like the NY tawk; but, yeah, good to have a break from it sometimes
Agree. Zero rap or hip-hop and head bobbing twerking.
Before movies became stanky.
My mom took me to see this when I was about six years old (Our Telly was broken and she knew I loved `space` stuff. The creeping mud scenes really scared me back then. Great to catch up with it again.
I loved the look and design of the spaceship. Light years ahead of what we have now.
One of my favorite sci fi.movies .and that east German mig 15 UTI. Is cool
The acting was good and so was the english voice over. I think that there were many dedicated film production artists who did so much with what I suspect was barely subsistence wages. Bravo to all of them.
I love the old science fiction and horror movies!
I absolutely LOVE how racially and ethnically diverse this movie is, especially given the year it was made! Great job! And a pretty good movie, plot wise, too!
1960, even before the first moon landing, this is way ahead of its time- crazy!
I saw this movie as a kid in 1964 and liked it. Glad to have finally found it again. Thanks for uploading!
An extraordinary film. Actually a lot of good science ideas and facts in it! Love those teletubby space suits too!
That's what I thought too!
The effects are great for this 60s era film
This deserves a screening on MST 3000!!!
It was one! Just type in mst3k behind the title and you'll find it.
I'd rather watch the movie as is without a bunch of idiots trying to be funny all over it. I just don't get the appeal of MST 3000, to me they just spoil a movie... :)
Late on Saturday nights, there was a show called "Weird" from KTRK 13 Houston, we would pop corn and watch many of these old movies as a kid in the 60's on B&W TV. Great stuff.
And just South of you about 10 miles on I-45, they moved some cattle out of the way and started to build Johnson Space Center, home of Mission Control and the Manned Spacecraft Center.
Yep, WEIRD and LATE WEIRD, l too grew up in Houston back in the 60s and remember those old horror and SciFi movies.....good times.
around 1982 I saw this as a teenager in NYC on a late-night Friday night movie channel. I thought it was really interesting, here it is again.
Wow! Those fashions in 1985 were WAY more "retro" than I realized!
lol
Wow, Star Trek got A LOT of inspiration from this movie. Thanks for posting. :)
Yes indeed. Everyone thought Gene Rodenberry was a scientific genius for all the effects he created for Star Trek. He stole most of the ideas from older sci-fi films. Including his transporter idea which was first used in 1956, The Forbidden Planet.
and Star Wars got the inspiration for their opening titles.
@@bluecollarmusic there was no Transporter in Forbidden Planet, at least not on the spaceship.
The narrator sounds a lot like George Takei. A lot.
@@robertdoherty2001 Can't be - he was barely out of diapers!!
So much better and varied than most contemporary and current sci-fi
I took the tour of the Babelsberg Film Studios in Berlin(Potsdam), and I saw the model used for the spaceship.
Too Cool! 👍👍👍
Thank goodness... finally a ship to Venus... My mom's Ford Fairlane 500 (with 312 T-Bird engine 10 to 1 comp. ratio solid lifters, 4 bbl Holley factory mod) convertible has been parked there since 1957!!
At last! The long awaited prequel to Independence Day.
Amazing how real space exploration has gone compared to this ancient science fiction movie. In the future of the year 1985 there is a moonbase, artificial gravity, and they have at least one spaceship capable of reaching Mars. But they have never send radio signals to Venus before, and probably not even robotic reconnaissance spaceprobes to Venus. A great movie! Maybe the best part is that it depicts a world wide collaboration.
It is eye opening that an eastern European movie from 1960 has such a multiracial cast
COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA!!!!1!!!!
THEY LET WOMENS BE CAMERAMEN AND SCIENTITS!
@@ian_b scientits.I like that
jaxxstraw this is a joke right?
Yes, but also in the Communist paradise, the sacrified one is the black man...
@@grantwilliams2650 Decide for yourself. Be bold.
I LOVE these old movies, hokey as they are, still better then today's CRAP.
Space suit punctured, cripes people, you not carry duct tape?
No, they're not even close.
Great old movies relaxing too
Pretty damn good for a sci-fi movie made in the 60's. Thanks for the upload.
Absolutely hilarious. At 12 minutes we can see that they're sending a guy on a space mission who has a reputation for forgetting things. 😂
Like a 'friend' who owes you $$$.
Not only am I watching this krap, I have started to talk to my plants.
This self isolation is slowly driving me insane.
Bernie Smith
You’re talking to your plants!?!? Ha, mine are talking to me!! Saying something about whirled peas or domino nation. They have a funny accent when they talk so I don’t understand all they say. The Cosmos Trader should have been named the Flying Pickle Fork.
a little taste of the disabled and bed ridden is enlightening...your life isn't as bad as you thought ..
@@farklefuster6876"Cosmostrator".
Well, get in the fast lane!
Well, get into the fast lane.
Cool movie , love these old ones, thank u
Great movie, love these old ones, thank u
I was 8 and this would not have been a local theater. I never knew we has a space station on the moon either. YT truth is great
This was eight years before 2001, and four years after Forbidden Planet. (56) It was not only an international project, but it had some advanced ideas. this was long before memory chips were a glimmer in some engineers imagination. crystal encoded message intercepted in blast. Not bad. and a somewhat somber conclusion. As a kid I thought it was talky, but the Venus landscape was eerie and alien. Great popcorn fare. Rob, if you are reading, I saw this one at the Roosevelt Theater. Queens.
thank for the upload....the funniest part ,TO ME ,is the language translation..you've been in north america for over 300 years and can't understand our native languages..
Thanks for posting this. Thank goodness Roger Coreman did not buy this to release in the US. This version is far more intact compared to the original East German/Polish release than it would have been if he had gotten ahold of it.
Corman would have slipped a couple cheesy monsters into it! 😮
Thank you very much to my groovy TH-cam algorithm for suggesting this movie*
15:53 Now I know where the idea for Teletubbies came from.
All my drawings of spaceships were inspired this movie when I was little :D Lets be honest tho, there weren't many great sci-fi stories in eastern bloc/soviet union.
But, those few that are, I'm still rewatching from time to time- Solaris, Flight of Pirx, Hotel of Dead Alpinist etc. Thank you, uploader, for remembering this one, as I had already forgotten :)
Lol the contrast on this old film makes that one black guy just floating eyes and teeth xD
The early science fiction space movies inspired a generation.
Loving so far half way through
I love watching these old movies
I love these hokey old Sci-Fi's from the 50's and 60's...Always good for a laugh. With those Spacesuits, all they needed were some whiskers and a piece of cheese!!! Great Space Ship design too!!! LOL - I wonder if in 70 years, people will be laughing at OUR SCI-FI movies? [They probably will.]
IF we survive this CORONAVIRUS OF 2020 - [COVID19] ... A scary time in our history.
This is a prime example of the movies we would see on late night TV in the 1960's or a Sunday afternoon thriller so campy and hokey LOL takes me back; even more fun to see now .....in 70 years when it comes to the space race we have barely advanced
Love the teddy bear onsies as space suits.
Excellent B rated SciFi Movie. Imo for its time this movie is quite advanced in conception and production. A few goofy things but by and whole quite a Good Sci-Fi movie for 1960.
There are those of the opinion that Ed Wood's classic film, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" was the worst film ever committed to Celluloid. "First Spaceship on Venus" is a close second, I would argue. A film so bad it is fantastic!
You haven't seen the great Russian epic film "Ilya Muromets"! Superb sets, excellent battle scenes. But the great warrior, supposedly young strapping Muromets, is played by an old bearded guy in his 60s! And the Dragon..... hilarious! A real howler, but fun to watch. 😊
My God that Mercury Launch was exactly like the real Lunar Launch in 1969, Even the equipment and rocket, exactly the same.
@thomas brunn Ever see the movie Capricorn One? It's a good one, too! Reveals a lot about "space" travel.
A good movie for its time. Updated special effects would not add much to the movie. What makes a good movie is a storyline. It reminded me of Star Trek TV shows, spaceships going out to where no man has gone before. Notice that, unlike on the starship Enterprise, the crew actually wear seatbelts.
I agree- I prefer vintage sci fi for the bright colours ( when they are in colour that is) and interesting story lines.
well in the star trek universe they have developed what they refer to as inertial dampeners so seat belts weren't necessary .
Really love the G meter. These guys really handle g forces extremely good.
Well. Not good.
WOW! Stanislaw Lem great Polish sci-fi writer. Author of "Solaris"
10bkpm
Solaris i paru innych , równie dobrych
Thanx for uploading the whole movie. I watched it just today as part of an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I was intrigued by the multi ethnic cast but since it was dubbed I knew it wasn't American or British. Looked it up online & saw that it was an East German/Polish collaboration. Silly at times but I found it quite intriguing.
So it's communist, explains a lot.
Sumiko, my Sumiko. All those nights of passion in Paris as we waited for our mission assignments. You chose the Venus mission, I pleaded for you to stay
naively thinking my love could keep you bound to Earth.
I was wrong
Sumiko 💔
Wow they wiped out The Black Guy, The Asian Guy, and The Jewish Guy. Early Sci-fi and creature movies were the absolute best, keep them coming.
If I understand yoru commentary, you like the fact that they eliminate the black guy, the Asian and the Jewish one...cause if that is what you are saying...I guess you voted for Trump. Am I right?
Brinkman was German
@@marlolo3723I guess you voted for Biden, tell me how great he is. 😂😂😂moron
Shockingly for a movie of the 50s to mid-70s, the brother was not the first to bite the bullet.
Ha.
I only knew about the Apollo programme. This was a great achievement. Good documentary.
Best comment here. I admire this great innovation also.
Excellent work Sir
Spock - Quite obviously you don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Have you thought about joining the real world?
We really went to Venus, wow
lol
Yoko Tani (1928 - 1999) was a French born Japanese actress and nightclub performer. She appeared in many low budget exploitation films that cast her as a femme fatale, a virtual slave girl and in other demeaning roles. Her role in this self-consciously internationalist 1959 East German/Polish as a doctor/scientist was a rare departure. The original title of this movie was The Silent Star and this version is one of several that were edited (often beyond recognition) for foreign markets: for example, the Japanese version edited out all references to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Being a product of two sternly communist regimes, the movie is also little more in some parts than a communist propaganda - at one stage there was twelve different scripts. Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006), the Polish author of the book upon which the movie was based, was severely critical and wanted his name removed from the credits. He said, "It practically delivered speeches about the struggle for peace. Trashy screenplay was painted; tar was bubbling, which would not scare even a child."
I remember seeing this movie in the theater when I was a little kid.
It's amusing to see scientists portrayed as strictly rational and intellectually honest, dedicated to international cooperation and the advancement of human knowledge.
How things have changed, huh.
OMG..,you are so right....I had ankle surgery, and movies like this and Dilaudid kept me sane😊✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Yes. Before they all mysteriously went stark raving mad!
Next up...
ATTACK OF THE PSYCHO SCIENTISTS!
untill they work for rich computer tech guys then they become corrupt..
That's always been a fantasy
KOOL, actually has a story within the movie. Thank You.
Why do people spell "Cool" like "Kool"? It makes no sense. Is it just some juvenile hip thing to do? If so I sincerely hope you are either a child or no older than 22.
Liberace wants his candelabra like spaceship back.
It has a Star Wars-like intro, with words disappearing into the starscape.
1985? This already happened? Where have I been?
Brain at 7:30 pm: we're going tf to bed tonight...
Brain at midnight :let's check out this 60 year old Sci-fi flick. 😂😂😂
🤦🏽♀️
I up your bid by 2 hours. I started watching at 2am 😂😷
@@TheScotsalan: And at 5AM.
@@jcw3195 You win fella 😷😂
I sure am glad that the title description has "Science Fiction", otherwise I would have never of known. These days with the likes of Elon Musk, someday it might be mistaken as 'Documentary'.
"Break glass in case of emergency" doesn't make a fat lot of sense in a space vessel. If you can't trust your crew mates, don't leave home. And if you lose your anti-grav, your compartment is filled with floating shards of shattered glass. Oh but wait, this is outer space, so of course they have a "vacuum" cleaner.
Don't you just love it!!! Great movie.
Well of course, since there can be no life on Mercury, it must have come from Venus. Venus is a true "sister" planet to Earth, perfectly capable of supporting life at it's comfortable 462 Celsius temperature...
Oh come on... The movie is 60 years old...
462 Celsius after the technological disaster on Venus. :D
This film is a year older than me and we were taught that venus was the same temperature as earth etc etc, the world hadn't embraced Velikovskys knowledge and the probe hadn't set off.
Some like it HOT! 🔥🔥🔥
When this movie was made, scientific thought was that Venus had a warm, not hot, very humid atmosphere, similar to some Earth climates.
that was great how they created no gravity like they're in space when they're right in the studio
Rick Manning
Just like the space station does now.😂
So bad, it's good.
The bad lip syncing is hilarious.
Foreign language film.
excellent and progressive. I was the twelve year old boy who left the theater open eyed, and loving science fiction
First saw this movie on television in 1967. No other movie fascinates me like this one - what an amazingly odd looking group of people! There are scenes in this film where the cast simply look unearthly. Give this movie credit - we get to hear an alien language and travel to an alien city on Venus via the weirdest landscape imaginable.
I love the weird landscape. It was rather good for the era.
when I realized that this movie was in totalvision I crawled under the bed to hide...unfortunately the spiders under my bed were scarier than totalvision so I crawled out faster than I had crawled in and am glad that I did...
I have arachnophobia, but I hardly ever see them- they must be as afraid of me as I am afraid of them.
He was David Jones when he entered the theatre... when he left he was ZIGGY STARDUST!
This movie is so exciting, they even included R2-D2's great grandfather, he's the one who gave an update of the weather, sad.
Looks like Devo was involved with the production design.
OMG! DEVO! Thanks for that gut laugh during this quarantine!🤣🤣🤣
hulakan lmao 😂
With crowd shots organized by the STAZI
WARNING TO ALL: This movie was filmed in "TOTALVISION" !!
Movies like this remind me of Sun Rise Theater on Saturday mornings. Now that was a long time ago.
Mark Harris in the UK we called them "saturday morning matinee" with competitions and cartoons, a chapter play and a main film.
it was fun being a kid then. no computer games or mobile phones. our friends were not virtual but real.
Agree.....LOL....how I miss the those days and was able to go to them for a .25 cents...or .50 cents depending on the day....they had special matinee days for kids on certain days of the week in the summer...:)))) HIGH 5 ev1
The spaceship was likely the inspiration for the Estes Mars Snooper model rocket.
Robert Campbell or the hood ornament of a Packard.
I noticed that too! 😊
I thought it was quite similar too! I'm 61 and remember that rocket.
Having been a little kid when this movie came out, it was as real to us as anything.
badass movie I can watch over and over
What a great documentary!
Amazingly well done considering the time and kind of refreshing take of it all being someting different than mainstream Hollywood.
"Then somebody remembered in 1908 in Siberia an explosion occurred ....... LOL!
lol I caught that too.
LOL...
It happened
That made me laugh and I was going to mention it. You beat me too it.🤣
Mr Chinchilla They’re laughing about his saying “Then somebody remembered”.
How well I remember watching this at the Drive-In with mom, and our Husky. Great times for sure.
AWESOME CLASSIC MOVIES THANKS SO MUCH .
WITH THIS STAYING IN HOME VIRUS THESE MOVIES ARE AWESOME
I JUST LOVE ME SOME CLASSICS
I was starting to climb the walls today until finding this movie. Great classic sci-fi!
great old movie remember watching it when I was a child
Wonderful movie - and wonderful cliches: The clever and brilliant Indian scientist who solves all riddles (who also doubles as surgeon), the always worried Japanese emotional "token" female (who doesn't do anything to show she IS actually the ship's doctor), the commander who is always right, and the black African who hardly does anything (except unsuccessfully calling different people on the radio) but in the end saves the rest and (as a reward) is being left behind. All this mixed with long, meaningless glances at each other, a lot of "this could be" or "I think it's that", and dramatic background music. Great story :)
As a sci fi movie fan, I was not very fond of this film. This movie reeked of old, played-out stereotypical clichés and roles.
The soundtrack still chills me..like the Dr.who music
The little tracked robot reminds me of Dr. Who's "K9". 😮
There's a Dr. Who music CD.
I remember one movie where astronauts were on the moon or something and a large white sphere split open vertically and dragged the last one in line into itself and closed. I don't know if it had Robbie the Robot in it or not.
mission mars 1968 darren mcgavin! cool movie
"We have learnt much, but we have sacrificed a lot - too much."
It just isn't the same without Ming the Merciless.
Yep, those REALLY old and good classics......Flash Gordon!!!
Ah, in Ireland we have a true life Ming the Merciless. He's actually a member of the European Parliament! www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/from-ming-the-merciless-to-ming-the-mayor-1.683711%3fmode=amp
Flash Gordon is alive!!!