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On the Silver Globe

Βased on "The Lunar Trilogy" written by his uncle Jerzy Zulawski, Andrzej will embark on a labyrinthine allegorical saga oscillating between Andrei Tarkovsky's philosophical science fiction and Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist iconography.

A group of cosmic explorers leaves Earth behind to find freedom and start a new civilization. When their spaceship crashes on an unknown planet and the original team dies, their children revert to a primitive native culture that will eventually evolve into a society divided into a numerous classes, waiting for the arrival of a messiah.

Βased on "The Lunar Trilogy" written by his uncle Jerzy Zulawski, Andrzej will embark on a labyrinthine allegorical saga oscillating between Andrei Tarkovsky's philosophical science fiction and Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist iconography.

Two years later, when 80% of the film was already shot, the Polish government interrupted this overambitious production under the pretext it was covert criticism of the communist regime. A decade later, the director will complete his vision replacing the missing scenes with his own narration, delivering what is considered the most phantasmagorical film in his entire career. Th.P.


on the silver globe / στον ασημένιο πλανήτη... by NyxtesPremieras

Πρωτότυπος τίτλος / Original title
Na Srebrnym Globie

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Andrzej Zulawski

Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Andrzej Zulawski

Φωτογραφία / DoP
Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz

Μουσική / Music
Andrzej Korzynski

Μοντάζ / Editor
Krzysztof Osiecki

Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela Grażyna Dylag, Waldemar Kownacki
Iwona Bielska, Jerzy Gralek

Πολωνία / Poland
1987
Εγχρωμο / Color
35mm
166'
Πολωνικά / Polish



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