Frau im Mond (1929)
Silent B&W German sci-fi film by Fritz Lang, with a love story within the plot. The video I saw looked very good considering the age of the movie. I watched a version with English subtitles added because my German is rudimentary at best. The directing was as good as I expected, the acting was fairly typical of films of the era, and I thought the special effects were good for the time. Supposedly, the countdown sequence for the rocket launch was the first time that a countdown was ever used to depict a rocket launch. The story had some ridiculous and scientifically wrong aspects to it but it was fairly entertaining and managed to keep me interested despite the rather long running time of 166 minutes.