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Director:
Marek Piestrak
Writers:
Stanislaw Lem (story)
Marek Piestrak (writer)
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Release Date:
1978 (Poland) more
Genre:
Drama | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Sergei Desnitsky ... Pirx
Aleksandr Kaidanovsky ... Tom Nowak
Vladimir Ivashov ... Harry Brown
Tõnu Saar ... Kurt Weber
Aleksandr Belyavsky
Igor Przegrodzki ... McGuirr
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Boleslaw Abart ... Jan Otis
Janusz Bylczynski ... Juge
Mieczyslaw Janowski ... Mitchell
Jerzy Kaliszewski ... Dr. Kristoff
Zbigniew Lesien ... John Calder
Ferdynand Matysik ... Green (UNESCO Director)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Дознание пилота Пиркса (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Doznanie pilota Pirksa (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Navigaator Pirx (Soviet Union: Estonian title)
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Runtime:
104 min
Color:
Color
Certification:
Finland:K-12
Filming Locations:
Moszna, Upper Silesia, Poland

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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Vivid childhood memories, 19 September 2006
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Author: denis888 from Russian Federation

I remember I saw this Polish - Russian film around 1978 or 1979, when I myself was 8 or 9 years old. That film really shocked me, and I was deadly frightened with the final scene where one of the "bad androids" was trying to launch some mechanism which would certainly kill all the humans of board of the space ship. And then, one of the human pilots managed to kick the velocity, and thus the artificial arms of that robot were vividly torn away. I was so frightened with that so I didn't sleep several hours at night. Let's be serious. This is a low-budget, old Soviet adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi book. The problem is still actual now - will the handsome, smart, strong androids be better than real humans, or if they are, will they eliminate us as a defected rudimentary? The film is not a must for those who seek superb special effects, but this is a far warmer and sincere story about the old but actual question - Will robots replace us?

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