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(1942) Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marchat, Julien CaretteIt, Robert Arnoux, Simone Allain, Auguste Bovério. A husband and wife scientist team plans a mission into the stratosphere aboard a new-fangled balloon/spacecraft. When the scientist is injured, his wife proceeds on the journey as planned, along with a bumbling assistant. However, in mid-flight problems arise and their craft goes shooting into outer space at an unbelievable speed. When they return a few days later, 25 years have passed! The husband, now much older, fashions a new spaceship that will fly paying customers 30 years (upon their return) into the future. An amazing variety of people take the trip, including a criminal trying to escape prosecution via the statute of limitations, a young man who is heir to a fortune but doesn’t want to wait years for his uncle to die, a fading movie star, and many others. Their flight inadvertently ends up on Venus, where they discover a human-run Utopia. This is an amazing movie, crammed with science-adventure, drama, romance, and a good dose of comedy. Watch for the colossal musical number midway through the film. This may be the first time in film history that the theory of relativity was used in a screenplay. French with English subtitles, from 35mm.
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