You won't be shocked to hear Werner Von Braun imprinted on Frau im Mond (he would have been in his early teens when it was released, I think) and had his own copy, which was a regular feature of evening entertainment at Peenemünde.
I didn't know he screened it at Peenemünde, but I am not shocked; I knew Oberth was one of his teachers. The introductory speaker mentioned that the Friede used in the movie was a model rocket in the sense of being a literal model for a full-fledged rocket, later confiscated by the Nazis (and lost during the war) in case it gave away any of the secrets of the V-2.
I had a writeup on this somewhere on my LJ, but as I'm commenting via phone I can't track it down just now.
I'd love to read it if you can find it. I keep finding criticism of the film that refers to the industrial espionage as time-wasting and the love story as boring and I didn't find either of these things to be true, although it is also true that I wasn't sure at all that we were watching a love triangle in the conventional sense.
This film does make me sad in some ways--it's a reminder of all the wonderful possibilities Germany represented, after the hyperinflation and before the Depression, which ended up choked and distorted and twisted instead.
One of the other things that interested me about the film was its straightforward asssumption of a spacefaring future proceeding from the Friede's successful moon voyage. If only.
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I didn't know he screened it at Peenemünde, but I am not shocked; I knew Oberth was one of his teachers. The introductory speaker mentioned that the Friede used in the movie was a model rocket in the sense of being a literal model for a full-fledged rocket, later confiscated by the Nazis (and lost during the war) in case it gave away any of the secrets of the V-2.
I had a writeup on this somewhere on my LJ, but as I'm commenting via phone I can't track it down just now.
I'd love to read it if you can find it. I keep finding criticism of the film that refers to the industrial espionage as time-wasting and the love story as boring and I didn't find either of these things to be true, although it is also true that I wasn't sure at all that we were watching a love triangle in the conventional sense.
This film does make me sad in some ways--it's a reminder of all the wonderful possibilities Germany represented, after the hyperinflation and before the Depression, which ended up choked and distorted and twisted instead.
One of the other things that interested me about the film was its straightforward asssumption of a spacefaring future proceeding from the Friede's successful moon voyage. If only.