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FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS East German misc OR search current auctions Auction History Result 8c141 FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS East German R84 Kurt Maetzig's Der Schweigende Stern! Date Sold 10/29/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1984 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Folded East German Movie Poster (measures 11 1/4" x 30 3/4") (Learn More) Der Schweigende Stern (released in the U.S. in 1962 as "First Spaceship on Venus"), the 1960 Kurt Maetzig East German/Polish utopian Communist science fiction (sci-fi) interplanetary war space flight thriller ("This is a first! Fantastic! Unforgettable!"; "You are there... On man's most exciting, most incredible journey!"; "You Are There... as they pass the moon and Lunar Station III"; "You are there... as they discover the Venusians' vitrified Forest!"; "You are there... as they are attacked by crawling, living lava!"; "You are there... as they brave the raging irradiated Venusquake!"; "Written by James Fethke", based on the novel 'Astronauci' by Stanislaw Lem; about the future world of 2003, where the Earth is a utopian single country communist paradise, and scientists discover a meteorite that landed on Earth from Venus in 1908, and it says that the Venusians will destroy the Earth in 2008, so the scientists quickly send a spaceship to Venus, but there they discover that the militaristic Venusians destroyed themselves in a nuclear civil war before they could attack the Earth!) starring Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe, and Kurt Rackelmann. Note that the book this movie was based on was the first published novel by Stanislaw Lem, a Polish author born in 1921. He was born Jewish but was raised Catholic, and his wealthy father kept his family safe from the Nazis. After World War II, Lem, who had gone to medical school, abandoned his medical studies and became an author. He wrote many short stories in the late 1940s and in 1951 this book, "Astronauci" (The Astronauts), was published. It was adapted into this movie in 1960, and in 1962 a highly edited version was released in the U.S. as "First Spaceship on Venus". Over the 1950s he wrote more novels, and in 1961 he wrote his most famous novel, Solaris, which was adapted into a Russian TV movie in 1968, and the highly acclaimed Russian movie by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost science fiction authors of all time, on a par with H.G. Wells! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a rare "country of origin" poster for this partially East German movie (and it is the very first country of origin poster we have seen)! This poster has been kraftbacked, which means it was backed onto a white paper soon after it was printed (this process is called "kraft-backing", and posters with it are called "kraft-backed"). One could have it professionally removed from the kraft paper and linenbacked, and it would look great! Condition: good. After the poster was glued to the white kraft paper, the borders of the paper were folded over and glued to the front of the borders of the poster. There is a foreign distributor snipe glued to the bottom center of the poster and a faint embossed foreign stamp in the top right background area. Learn More about condition grades 
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