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First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
is the American title of
the German movie Der
Schweigende Stern, or The
Silent Star. It's based
on acclaimed Polish sci fi writer Stanislaw Lem's first novel, The
Astronauts.
The story begins with the discovery of of a mysterious
magnetic spool in a rem ote region of Siberia. Scientists determine that
it came from a Venusian spaceship that crashed in 1908. As a team of
experts from all over the world struggles to translate the message on
the spool, a rocketship blasts off for Venus.
Although the experts predict the message on the spool is
one of peace and hope, they find out it's really a plan to annihilate
all life on Earth. Meanwhile, the astronauts continue on towards Venus,
with some sort of cosmic interference making communication with Earth
impossible. They eventually land on our neighboring planet but find no
life and, alas, no cool or even tacky monsters to destroy.
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