# The Thing (1951)

**German title:** Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt


**Genres:** Horror, Sci-Fi

**Duration:** 87 min

**Age rating:** FSK 12

**IMDb:** [7.0](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/)

**Letterboxd:** [3.4](https://letterboxd.com/film/the-thing-from-another-world/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 87%, Popcornmeter: 73%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_thing_from_another_world)

## Description

Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

## Details

**Premiere:** 26 Oct 1951

**Director:** Christian Nyby

**Cast:** James R. Young, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Nicholas Byron, Eduard Franz, George Fenneman, Paul Frees

**Countries:** United States

**Languages:** English

**Available versions:** OmU

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs2lXH1aFZ0)

## Showtimes in Leipzig in original language (OV, OmU, OmeU)

### 2026-05-03 (Sunday)

- **[Passage Kinos](/cinemas/396-passage-kinos.md) (Mitte):** [2026-05-03 20:30](https://www.kinoheld.de/kino-leipzig/passage-kinos-leipzig/vorstellung/455265?appView=1)  (OmU)