Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Classic European Science Fiction Films

io9 has a list of "Classic European scifi movies you probably haven’t seen – but you should":
Himmelskibet, Excelsior / A Trip to Mars / Das Himmelschiff (1918), Denmark
Rymdinvasion i Lappland / Terror In The Midnight Sun / Invasion of the Animal People (1959), Sweden
Reptilicus (1961), Denmark
Verdens Undergang / The End Of The World (1916), Denmark
Tainstvennyy ostrov / Mysterious Island (1941), USSR
Miss Mend / The Adventures of the Three Reporters, 1926, USSR
Kosmicheskiy reys / Cosmic Voyage or The Space Voyage (1936), USSR
Nebo zovet / Battle Beyond The Sun (1959), USSR
Aelita / Aelita: Queen Of Mars (1924), USSR
Ones I've seen are in bold print. One can't say most of these are readily available.

4 comments:

  1. Oh wow, I LOVE sci fi. I must see if these are available at my local library.

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  2. Rymdinvasion i Lappland? Isn´t that like the worst turkey of all time? Can not believe that is any kind of classic... When I was a kid, there was a Norwegian television series called "Blindpassasjer" (= the stowaway passenger) about a space ship where a "biomat" (= an artificial human) replaces one of the crew, but which one? It was truly scary then, and everyone who saw it remembers it fondly, but I´m not sure it would be very impressive today.

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  3. Interesting that most of them are from the USSR and Denmark. Haven't seen any of them. I wonder if I can track them down.

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  4. bleubeard and elizabeth, i love science fiction, too, but i'm having trouble finding these.

    viktoria, i liked that one! lol i saw terror in the midnight sun here: http://divers-and-sundry.blogspot.com/2008/10/terror-in-midnight-sun.html that tv series sounds interesting.

    tbm, yes, i'd have expected something french or german. i often suspect list-makers of aiming for obscure works i can't possibly have heard of. ;)

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