''Eolomea'' is a 1972
science fiction film directed by
Herrmann Zschoche, based on the book of the same name by
Angel Wagenstein. The film was an
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Soviet
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Bulgaria
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n coproduction.
Story
Eight spaceships disappear and radio contact to the enormous space station "Margot" is broken off. Professor Maria Scholl and the high council decree a flight ban for all other spaceships. Nevertheless, one ship succeeds in leaving earth. The cause of all these strange events is the mysterious signals in
Morse code coming to earth from the constellation Cygnus. Deciphered, they say the word "Eolomea," which seems to refer to a planet. With Captain Daniel Lagny, an unmotivated eccentric, Maria Scholl undertakes the risky journey to the space station "Margot" to uncover the secret, only to discover that a secretly planned expedition of stolen spaceships is leaving for Eolomea against the will of the government.
Cast
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Cox Habbema: Prof. Maria Scholl
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Ivan Andonov
Ivan Asenov Andonov ( bg, Иван Асенов Андонов; 3 May 1934 – 29 December 2011) was a Bulgarian film director and actor. He directed more than thirty films, and is best known for his cinematography on '' Ladies' Choice'' (198 ...
: Daniel Lagny
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Rolf Hoppe
Rolf Hoppe (6 December 1930 – 14 November 2018) was a prolific German stage, cinema, and television actor, who played in more than 400 films in a career which spanned over six decades.
To international audiences Hoppe is perhaps best known f ...
: Prof. Oli Tal
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Vsevolod Sanayev
Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (Все′волод Васи′льевич Сана′ев; 25 2, o.s.February 1912 in Tula, Russian Empire – 27 January 1996 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s. Sanay ...
: Kun, the pilot
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: Pierre Brodski
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Wolfgang Greese
Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...
: Chairman
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Holger Mahlich: Navigator
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Benjamin Besson: Capt. Sima Kun
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Evelyn Opoczynski: colleague of Scholl
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Heidemarie Schneider: colleague of Sima Kun
Editions
The original, uncut version of the film was rereleased by the
DEFA Film Library
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at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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in 2005.
References
Bibliography
*Fritzsche, Sonja. "A Natural and Artificial Homeland: East German Science-Fiction Film Responds to Kubrick and Tarkovsky." Film & History (03603695) 40.2 (2010): 80-101.
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Kruschel, Karsten: "Leim für die Venus. Der Science-Fiction-Film in der DDR." ''Das Science Fiction Jahr 2007'' ed. Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke. Heyne Verlag, 2007: 803–888. .
*Lessard, John. "Iron Curtain Auteurs." Cineaste 34.3 (2009): 5-11.
*Stott, Rosemary. "Continuity and Change in GDR Cinema Programming Policy 1979–1989: the Case of the American Science Fiction Import." German Life & Letters 55.1 (2002): 91.
External links
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1972 films
1970s science fiction films
German science fiction films
Soviet science fiction films
East German films
1970s German-language films
Bulgarian science fiction films
1970s German films