i hear a lot of people yearn for some mysterious original version of this film and which be suppose to last for around 4 hour or so . well and defa have recently release an original version dvd and and it still run for exactly 1 hour 30 minute . if you think the english version be badly dub be prepare for a treat of your lifetime . the multitude of actor ( this word should be use in parenthesis ) who work on this film and come from germany and russia and poland and china and france ( the japanese actress be french ) and africa and and god only know what mish mash of language they use on the set . it all dub in german and in a sound booth that have the acoustic of a bucket and regardless whether the actor be in their space suite and in an sound of music like mountain paradise and or fight the boil tar on venus . amazingly and the original version take place in the year 1970 and not 1985 a the version release in the u . i can not really say anything redeem about this over lit and under direct yarn . there a bunch of extremely unexciting actor wannabe with the average age of somewhere around 55 and who in real life would probably have hard time climb the stair to second floor and let alone flee from the living slime which at one point be suppose to be so sticky that the slight drop glue the female to the floor and and which a minute later pour over the protagonist like a sea of mud ( which it be ) with no visible effect . everything be shoot in a rather small sound stage ( a oppose to russian sci fi classic voyage to the prehistoric planet ) and and how some viewer can deem this dermatine plasticine world to be eerily alien and be far over my head . i remember the time when every socialist coffee house have furniture like the glass forest of venus . the way the director and the cameraman and the lighting crew have manage to neglect their task and be biblical . the scriptwriter probably just be somewhere else from the very begin . the actor be quite often a real pain to behold and especially the black astronaut who probably be simply the only black man they have in east germany and and who be so miserable and that the director and on his more sane moment and have wisely ask him to turn his back to the camera while deliver his dialog . another horrible character be the tv woman with her bedroom eye ( do not forget it a 1959 socialist bedroom ) and who cover the event globally on a live intervision network . then there be some excitingly unnecessary character like brinkmann mother and arsenjew wife and who be cut from the first part of the film for u release and but for some inexplicable reason can be see at the end and thus make the whole mess even more perplexing . oh and and let not forget the despicable and but unavoidable precious little robot and one of which you can unmistakably find in every 50 sci fi flick and so you can marvel how it cute little light bulb start flash frantically when it start talk in a funny little voice . even though it look like a tiny toy tank and it manage to run over the stomach of a 7 foot russian astronaut and thus give the petite female surgeon excuse to undress the heroic male and operate on him to save his vitals ( sorry and not show . ) . i find stanislaw lem one of the best writer in this genre and and that make me wonder whether the fact that his name be use for this miserable screensoiler torment him throughout his life . please do not waste your time on this film and otherwise you will want to waste some more time to write a comment about how you waste your time in the first place .