On the Silver Globe

Original title: Na srebrnym globie

19881988
UnratedUnrated
2h 46min

A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.

7.3/10

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Director
- Andrzej Zulawski
Writers
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Jerzy Zulawski(books)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Iwona Bielska in Na srebrnym globie (1988)

Andrzej Seweryn in Na srebrnym globie (1988)

Iwona Bielska and Jerzy Gralek in Na srebrnym globie (1988)

Elzbieta Karkoszka and Jerzy Trela in Na srebrnym globie (1988)

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They eventually die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. Some time later, a space bureaucrat, running from a broken heart, arrives and finds the colonizer's descendants enslaved by bird-monsters called Cherns. Society is divided into numerous classes, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of a messiah. The newcomer is considered a suitable candidate, and for some time he lives as a god. —Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>

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Trivia
Andrzej Zulawski began filming after the success of L'important c'est d'aimer (1975), completing around three-quarters of film before the Polish ministry of culture halted production in 1978. After the democratization of Poland in 1986 Zulawski completed the film. Because production was interrupted from 1978 until 1986, the final film was released in an "amputated" form, with voice-over narration covering missing scenes.

Alternate versions
The English language version features a singular voice-over description of the action and dialogue; it isn't dubbed or subtitled, but it is the full version - 166 minutes.

Connections
Featured in Renegade Cut: On the Silver Globe (2017)

Top review

10/10

A rare, original, thought provoking masterpiece of Science Fiction.

Crazy original film.. trying to encapsulate almost everything about the human condition.. from simple human emotions, trust, love.. to opposition, hierarchy, religion, politics..how we perceive the world, the relationship between man and a woman, heavy philosophical and transcendental scenes.. the first 30 minutes are almost unbearable though.. at one point it got so boring, i could not sit still, i was going mental.. some people left the cinema.. mainly because of the heavy overly poetic and dramatic dialogue.. the rest is a joy for the imaginative mind.

It is based on a Sci-Fi novel, written by the grandfather of Zulawski. The novel had a great influence on Stanislaw Lem as he was growing up.

Mind-blowing stuff. A must-see for the serious cinephile.

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