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　　Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
　　In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.
　　The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.

影片设置于未来世界，讲述侦探马克(弗兰克·格里罗饰)的儿子被外星飞船吸走，而他需解救儿子，并对抗无时不在的外星生物。

2071。银河战争摧毁了月球，改变了地球的气候。莫斯科是热带森林，纽约是一片冰。在莫斯科上空升起一艘巨大的外星飞船-这是一个体育场，在那里进行了星际太空游戏的表演，联合体育和角斗士的战斗。整个银河系都在看比赛。只有运动员才能玩太空。这就是人们所说的那些具有非凡能力并能够管理这些能力的人。宇宙崇拜的一切，除了安东，最普通的人，谁只是梦想找到一份工作来帮助家庭。但有一天，他发现自己的超能力，并接受加入国家队。现在他是一个宇宙飞船的球员。安东还不知道这场比赛的命运决定了他的角色，最后的比赛将是一场为土地而战。

　　在很久以前的遥远星系中，“炮弹一族”因其领袖的愚蠢，耗尽了自己星球的大气，于是计划夺取邻近的朱迪亚星球的纯净空气。在朱迪亚星球维斯帕公主（达芙妮•祖尼加 Daphne Zuniga 饰）婚礼前夕，炮弹族总统斯古（梅尔•布鲁克斯 Mel Brooks 饰）派出黑帽子大人率领巨型战舰绑架维斯帕，以威胁朱迪亚方面就范。维斯帕拒绝没有爱情的婚姻选择逃婚，却陷入了炮弹族巨舰的追击，这时，因为欠高利贷在太空中奔逃的太空牛仔“孤星”（比尔•普尔曼 Bill Pullman 饰）与半人半狗的搭档巴夫受朱迪亚国王所托，出面将维斯帕救走。炮弹族岂肯善罢甘休，正邪势力在太空上演了又一场激战……

　　太空探險家賽門意外發現外星生物，這個叫「阿諾」的可愛小毛怪，長的可愛又友善，但是賽門的邪惡兄弟Cecil卻把它綁架了，但麻煩的還不只於此，受到攻擊與威脅的「阿諾」會自動分裂，一個變兩個，兩個變四個，長的又快又邪惡，轉眼間平靜小鎮斥充邪惡小怪物，賽門與「阿諾」要如何拯救小鎮？...