A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product.
Acting
Curd Jürgens as UFO-Commander committing fully to lettuce-based diplomacy.
Practical Effects
Gloriously cheap UFO effects that aged like unrefrigerated salad.
Writing
Biologist-mother-romance-UFO plot somehow holds together for 91 minutes.
Director
Hansjürgen Pohland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of West Germany's wilder genre experiments, this film captures the era's obsession with both space race paranoia and domestic farce.
Hildegard Knef, legendary chanteuse and actress, plays the overbearing mother—her only sci-fi-adjacent role in a 60-year career.
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