On the Silver Globe
Andrzej Zulawski / PL, 1988 / 165 min.
Polish masterpiece about astronauts who land on a deserted planet to found a new civilisation. This megalomaniac science fiction epic is overwhelmingly intense, taking a cynical look at a human race that is able to survive only through violence.
In On the Silver Globe, a team of astronauts found a new civilisation on an uninhabited world. Polish visionary Andrzej Żuławski had almost finished his crazy science fiction film when the Polish government ordered that production be stopped and all the negatives destroyed. Incredibly, the original rolls of film survived, and ten years later the film was presented to great acclaim at the Cannes film festival.
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Director
Andrzej Zulawski
Production year
1988
Country
PL
Original title
Na srebrnym globie
Length
165 min.
Language
Polish
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Feat or Failure
Magnum opus or flawed masterpiece? No film divided opinion at the last Cannes film festival as much as Francis Ford Coppola's latest epic, Megalopolis. To accompany the première, Eye is screening a selection of other films that turned out to be way ahead of their time – in spite of not being well understood in their own era.
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