Der schweigende Stern
Hackesche Höfe Kino, Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin, Mitte
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About
„Der schweigende Stern“ is the first science fiction film of the DEFA, an East German-Polish co-production from 1960. Directed by Kurt Maetzig after Stanisław Lem's novel „Die Astronauten“, it tells of an international space expedition that follows an encrypted message to Venus. There the cosmonauts around Yôko Tani, Oldrich Lukes and Ignacy Machowski find not the feared attack, but a completely desolate scenario. The pacifist film stands as a dystopian warning to the arms-racing Cold Warriors of the early 1960s.
Written by a model, sources: hoefekino.de
Critics
4.7Mixed
Critics praise the film's social critique and ambitious original design. They fault the heavily censored Western cut, which removed political content and reduced the work to a mere shadow of itself.
Reviews: filmdienst.de, TMDb
Trailer
Showtimes
Tue 24 Nov
Hackesche Höfe KinoRosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin
Venue
Hackesche Höfe Kino is in Berlin’s Mitte.
Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin
More at Hackesche Höfe Kino- Director
- Kurt Maetzig
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 80 min
