Eolomea
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Eolomea is a 1972 science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 film directed by Hermann Zschoche, based on a screenplay by Angel Wagenstein. The film was an East German/Soviet
Soviet Union
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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
Morse code
Morse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment...

 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

  • Cox Habbema: Prof. Maria Scholl
  • Iwan Andonow: Daniel Lagny
  • Rolf Hoppe: Olo Tal
  • Wsewolod Sanajew: Kun
  • Petar Slabakow: Pierre Brodski
  • Wolfgang Greese: Ratsvorsitzender
  • Holger Mahlich: Navigator
  • Benjamin Besson: Sima Kun
  • Evelyn Opoczynski: colleague of Scholl
  • Heidemarie Schneider: colleague of Sima Kun

Editions

The original, uncut version of the film was rereleased by the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005.
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