First Spaceship on Venus

Actors: Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe, Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Michail N. Postnikow, Kurt Rackelmann, Tang Hua-Ta

Rating: 2 out of 10, This was a novel experience, the first ever East German/Polish film I can remember seeing. As part of my journey through 100 bad sci fi films this one actually wasn’t horribly bad. Made at the height of the Cold War it presented a fairly optimistic view of the near future where man has a base on the moon in 1985 and a completely multi-cultural crew mans the spaceship to Venus. The 1908 Tunguska meteor impact in Siberia in this film was a spaceship from Venus and a united earth sends their own spaceship to establish contact. Laughably bad, by today’s standards, special effects contribute little other than distraction. This wasn’t very good but it wasn’t horribly bad either and I liked the optimistic view.

MVP: Yoko Tani as Dr. Sumiko Ogimura