A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune is a 1902 French science fiction, adventure, trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès. Inspired by the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon (1865). The film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis.

Categories: Science Fiction

Director: Georges Méliès

Starring: Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, François Lallement, Henri Delannoy

Country: France