"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.
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