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The Silent Star is part of the DEFA Collection
Remastered
Special Edition - Uncut & Unaltered!
In this celebrated sci-fi
classic, a mysterious object from outer space is found in the Gobi desert.
An international expedition, dispatched to Venus to decipher the message it
contains, discovers it is a declaration of war - on Earth!
The first sci-fi film made in East Germany by the legendary DEFA film studio, The Silent Star is a masterpiece in story, art and
set design, and technology and was the forerunner of 2001: A Space Odyssey and, later, Contact. Based on the novel The Astronauts by
Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris) and made during the U.S./U.S.S.R.
space race set off by the Sputnik launch, The Silent Star is now finally available unedited and unaltered in this digitally remastered
version.
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"The DEFA Sci-Fi Collection'' brings together three
cold-war fantasies of space travel and Communist domination of the known universe,
blending outrageous camp and Marxist ideology." - New York Times
"If there's anything more beguiling to a true treasure-hunting
cinephile than the old films of a lost nation-in this case, East Germany-it's
that nation's idiosyncratic genre flicks. Socialist sci-fi! First Run is releasing
three uncut films from DEFA, the GDR's premier production studio, all of them
chintzy, freaky, conceptual space operas focused, surprisingly, on character
and emotional fallout." - Village Voice
"Running the gamut from the exceedingly nerdy and
expository to the absolutely tripped out, reckless consumption of this set may
result in full-fledged conversion to a utopian space politics unheard of this
side of the United Space Federation. Highly enjoyable!"
- Stop Smiling Magazine
Read That
Was the Wild East:
Film Culture, Unification, and the "New" Germany by
Leonie Naughton
Bonus materials:
- Historical Essay: Socialists in Outer Space
- Newsreels about The Silent Star
- Biographies of
Director, Set Designer & Special Effects Artist
- Gallery
of Set Design
- DEFA Sci-Fi Trailer Gallery
Format: DVD
Release Year : 1960
Running Time: Approx. 95 minutes
Color: Color
Language: German w/ English subtitles
Also available in a box set.
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