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The Silent Star

Der schweigende Stern

  • 1960
  • Germany / Poland
  • feature film - Sci-Fi
  • 95 min. (2580 m.)
  • Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess
Yoko Tani (Dr. Sumiko Ogimura, the Japanese medical officer)
Oldřich Lukeš (Professor Harringway Hawling, the American commander)
Ignacy Machowski (Professor Sołtyk, the Polish chief engineer)
Julius Ongewe (Talua, the African communications officer)
Michail N. Postnikow (Professor Arsenew, the Soviet cosmonaut)
Kurt Rackelmann (Professor Sikarna, an Indian mathematician)
Günther Simon (Raimund Brinkman, the German pilot)
Tang Hua-Ta (Dr. Chen Yu, a Chinese linguist)
Lucyna Winnicka (Joan Moran, television reporter)
Omani Mensah (Afrikanischer Funker / Kellner)
Barbara Leonhard (Sekretärin)
Ruth Maria Kubitschek (Professor Arsenew's wife)
Karen Fredersdorf (Brinkmanns Mutter)
Gertraud Kreißig (Assistentin)
Nico Turoff (Wüstenarbeiter)
Ramala Bhar (Indischer Wissenschaftler)
Erich Lie (Chinese)
San Din Tscho (Chinese)
Werner Senftleben (Funker)

Direction

Director
Kurt Maetzig
Assistant director
Doris Borkmann
Hieronim Hertelt

Writing

Screenplay
Based on
Script editor
Hans-Joachim Wallstein

Camera & Light

Director of photography
Joachim Hasler
Assistant camera / focus puller
Detlef Hertelt
Vera Futterlieb
Jan Olejniczak
Helmut Grewald
Still photographer
Waltraud Pathenheimer

Decor

Production design
Anatol Radzinowicz
Alfred Hirschmeier
Set construction
Paul Lehmann
Willi Schäfer
Alfred Schulz
I. Kunka
Tadeusz Myszorek
J. Potocki
Senta Ochs
Make-up artist
Alois Strasser
Christa Grewald
Costume design
Elli-Charlotte Löffler

Cutting & Mixing

Editing
Lena Neumann
Sound
Kurt Eppers
Werner Klein
Günther Witt

Music

Music
Andrzej Markowski

Production

Unit production manager
Hans Mahlich
Edward Zajicek
Location manager
Martin Sonnabend
Henryk Szlachet
Dieter Wolf

Companies

Production company
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe »Roter Kreis«)
Film Polski (Gruppe Iluzjon)