VEDERE LA SCIENZA 2002

Milano   9/4/2002 - 14/4/2002

Spazio Oberdan - viale Vittorio Veneto, 2

Woman in the Moon



  1. Author: Fritz Lang
  2. Germany
  3. 120 min.
  4. 1928

The film, carried out in 1929, takes place between two masterpieces of Lang's German period, Metropolis of 1927, and M of 1931. The technical and scientific aspects of this space travel to the Moon are deduced from Hermann J. Oberth's studies, a rocket-propulsion pioneer, who took it as a subject of his own doctorate thesis - a thesis rejected by the board of examiners, since it was judged too futuristic - and published at author's own charge with the title Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (The Rocket to Interplanetary Spaces). A young student, Werner von Braun, came upon the book, sent Oberth his first theoretical work about a simple liquid fuel rocket, and met him in 1929, right when Oberth was building the models of the rocket appearing in Lang's film. Some years later (April 1934) Von Braun's doctorate thesis, unlike Oberth's one, was immediately decleared official secret and Frau im Mond disappeard from the scene, since Hitler was so impressed by Oberth/Lang's rocket to recommend it as a prototype for V1 and V2 rockets, that would have shelled London.

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