First Spaceship on Venus

First Spaceship on Venus is a joint German/Polish feature film of the science fiction genre. It was directed by Kurt Maetzig with a screenplay written by Maetzig and a collaborative adaptation writing team consisting of Jan Fethke, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Gunter Reisch, Gunther Rucker, and Alexander Stenbock-Fermor based on a novel written by Stanislaw Lem. The film was produced by VEB DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme and premiered in East Germany on February 26th, 1960.