Director: Kurt Maetzig
Cast: Oldřich Lukeš, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe, Mikhail Postnikov, Kurt Rackelmann,
Plot: A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
German genre movies from Masters of Cinema
Three new box sets from Eureka’s Masters of Cinema gather together an interesting range of genre movies made in East Germany at the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and ’70s. Four colourful sci-fi epics compete with […]
Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012)
I was surprised to read over the weekend of the death of Kurt Maetzig. He was 101. Maetzig began his career in film in the ’30s with work on film technologies and animation. After the rise of the Nazis his work permit was revoked because of […]