Sure , you ’ve seen a few European scifi classic like Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari . But have you ventured into northern and eastern Europe to uncover these gems ?
Himmelskibet, Excelsior / A Trip to Mars / Das Himmelschiff (1918), Denmark
A wonderful 81 - minute Danish outer space opera about Professor Planetarios and his crew . They are travel to Mars , where the mystic vegetarians hold up . Okay , it ’s a bit funny , but it ’s really astonishing .
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Rymdinvasion i Lappland / Terror In The Midnight Sun / Invasion of the Animal People (1959), Sweden
After a meteorite descend in Sweden , some reindeers are get idle . That ’s no meteorite — it ’s a spaceship with a monster , who kills and kidnaps people .
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Reptilicus (1961), Denmark
Danish mineworker dig up a huge prehistoric dragon - like reptilian ’s frozen tail somewhere in Lapland . But they do n’t have a go at it that the Reptilicus can revitalize . And then number the violent disorder ! This movie was a Danish - American Colorado - yield , but the original version was shot in Danish , and direct by Poul Bang . The American one was shot in English ( by Sidney Pink ) and let go one year afterward .
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Verdens Undergang / The End Of The World (1916), Denmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTXX6yG2XI
A huge comet flies toward Earth , and worldwide disaster is near . Natural disasters , poisonous flatulence and demolished city everywhere .
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Tainstvennyy ostrov / Mysterious Island (1941), USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baMDF6VfzgY
It ’s an adaptation of Jules Verne ’s The Mysterious Island , and it ’s about five prisoners in the American Civil War . They ’ve bunk with a stolen balloon , but collapse - kingdom on an unknown island ( named Lincoln Island after the American president ) , where they ’re inventing some things between two unusual deus ex machinas .
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Miss Mend / The Adventures of the Three Reporters, 1926, USSR
The 250 minute spy film came in three parts , and tell the fib of three hoi polloi who assay to avert a biological attack by a Western man of affairs . It set a box post record ( 1.7 million slate sold ) for its time .
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Kosmicheskiy reys / Cosmic Voyage or The Space Voyage (1936), USSR
This picture show is about the first Soviet Moon expedition in 1946 . There may be some problems , but of course everything will be all right .
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Nebo zovet / Battle Beyond The Sun (1959), USSR
It tells another account of the outer space race : the USSR and the USA are vie to land on the Mars . The funny affair is , a few years after the Soviet release , a untested motion-picture show - school day scholar named Francis Ford Coppola occidentalise it . He sum up a few shots , where place monsters are fighting , and cut the anti - American propaganda from it . Presto ! instantaneous American B - movie .
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Aelita / Aelita: Queen Of Mars (1924), USSR
The first full - distance movie about space travel . A young homo is move to Mars , where he head an rebellion with the supporting of the planet ’s queen , Aelita .
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