Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Frau im Mond" or "Woman in the Moon" is another Fritz Lang / Thea von Harbou collaboration from the 1920s, less than 5 years before the Nazi Party took over in Germany, so it's over 85 years old, still silent and black-and-white. And as with some other Lang films, especially the famous "Metropolis", he tackles science-fiction once again mixed with a touch of drama and love story. "Frau im Mond" runs for almost 3 hours in the version I watched, so it really is an extremely long movie and as there is no sound in here (apart from later added music perhaps), this is certainly not for everybody. And that probably includes me as well.I must say I quite enjoyed the scenes on the moon and how they displayed the planet here, but the personal drama stories just weren't interesting enough in my opinion. Sadly, these beautiful shots at the moon are definitely not worth it to sit through considerably over 150 minutes and watch this one. It really only is a good watch for people who cannot get enough of Lang's films and old, black-and-white, silent films in general. I am not one of these people and I have seen several of Lang's works. "Frau im Mond" is nowhere near the best I have seen from him. Or from German films that were made around that era. Many of them are considered classics today, but I can hardly agree with any of these. And certainly not with "Woman in the Moon" being such. Not recommended.

Michael O'Keefe WOMAN IN THE MOON is director Fritz Lang's film of space travel. And being made in the late 1920's, the special effects are in deed special. A professor(Klaus Pohl)is certain that there is gold on the moon and is convincing enough that an extraterrestrial journey is organized. It is uncanny that there is a countdown before the rocket's lift-off and that the passengers deal with weightlessness aboard the rocket. It is said that the depiction of the rocket in the film made a big impression on one Adolf Hitler. Renewed interest in this subtitled film came to light when excerpts were used in a 1960 TV documentary titled The Race for Space. It is a shame for any science fiction freak to not see and enjoy this.Other players include: Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp, Willy Fritsch, Heinrich Gotho, Max Zilzer and Hermann Vallentin.

Shane James Bordas Let's face it – 'Woman in the Moon' is hardly one of the great Fritz Lang's best efforts: far, far too long, badly paced, ludicrously over-melodramatic and just plain silly. Nevertheless, it contains prescient details in regards to space travel and (as should be expected) looks absolutely fabulous. Lang even made claims that this was the first film to feature a rocket launch countdown and who are we to question him? One thing you can be certain of is that going to the moon would never again look so stylish. Even though this is the tail end of Lang's classic silent period, those who love films like 'Dr. Mabuse' and 'Spies' will still find much to enjoy here.

patherto It's about 40 years since the last manned flight left the moon, and 40 years before that "Woman in the Moon" hit the silver screen. So we can admire the prescience of Willy and Werner in their multi-stage rocket and their depiction of zero gravity. But I struggled with the most non-ergometric controls ever engineered, the atmosphere of the moon, the presence of bubbling springs of water, and a divining rod(!?) used to find gold. The film also gets into trouble with its many and varied subplots—the two-men-in-love-with-the-same-woman subplot, the speculators-cornering-the-gold-market subplot, the evil-spy-network subplot, the cute-kid-stowaway subplot… It makes for a long film (my DVD comes in at 149 minutes) and a not very interesting one. The expressionist acting style wears after a while, and the slow-moving plot doesn't help matters. I loved the rocket launch (done by Oskar Fischenger, whose short animation films you should check out), and am able to put up with a fair amount of hokum in the name of entertainment. But this isn't one of Lang's best efforts.