This East German/Polish film called Der Schweigende Stern(The Silent Star) is a really good. The movie is based on a novel called The Astronauts, by Stanislaw Lem. Who also wrote Solaris and that would later be made into a movie in 1972.
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The story starts with a mysterious alien artifact is discovered in the Gobi desert in the year 1970. It is found out that it might have come from Venus. An international crew along with a R2-D2 like robot call Omega are sent to Venus and find an apocalyptic landscape with melted buildings and alien shadows on the walls. The astronauts explore the planet and discover that the Venusians were about to attack the Earth but a nuclear war wiped them out. They head back to Earth and warn humanity with an anti-nuclear message.
One of the many things I like about the film was the Kosmokrator rocket ship. It's such a unique design like the Luna rocket from Destination Moon(1950)and the Ark from When Worlds Collide(1951).
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
The story starts with a mysterious alien artifact is discovered in the Gobi desert in the year 1970. It is found out that it might have come from Venus. An international crew along with a R2-D2 like robot call Omega are sent to Venus and find an apocalyptic landscape with melted buildings and alien shadows on the walls. The astronauts explore the planet and discover that the Venusians were about to attack the Earth but a nuclear war wiped them out. They head back to Earth and warn humanity with an anti-nuclear message.
One of the many things I like about the film was the Kosmokrator rocket ship. It's such a unique design like the Luna rocket from Destination Moon(1950)and the Ark from When Worlds Collide(1951).