On the Silver Globe
On the Silver Globe

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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... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in On the Silver Globe:

Andrzej Seweryn
Michał Bajor
Jerzy Trela
Grażyna Dyląg
Maria Pakulnis
Waldemar Kownacki

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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.

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New York Times - 10/10 by A.O. Scott150 minutes of passionate and complicated science fiction, interspersed with documentary footage of ordinary Poles going about terrestrial business in the final days of Communism.
New Yorker - 9/10 by Richard BrodyIt's among the most visually extravagant films ever made.
Slant Magazine - 8/10 by Jeremiah KippIt becomes a bleak comic spit into the face of organized religion, organized society, and even organized narrative.
User Review - 10/10 by Mosheh GThe Silver Globe is among the strangest, most theatrical, most maddening films I've ever seen. It is a bleak, half-finished cosmic masterpiece that disparages mythology, civilization, and even story.
User Review - 10/10 by Joseph SWow, im the first to review this.... well... its weird, and thats an understatement. I swear, simply watching this movie will make you feel like you just took a bunch of acid... i couldn't even keep up. Its in russian (i think) but easy enough to keep up with, not that that helps. It is also surprisingly well done... Also, it's set on the moon... so why are people breathing and surviving on the a plant covered moon? well i think the script was wrote before they landed on the moon... So it was all imagination.. the only reason i gave it 4 stars is because ITS JUST TO LONG! I mean come on... i had a headache from trying to grasp what was happening...
User Review - 10/10 by Kenneth Kabsolutely amazing! I can see the antropologist working their butts of to come up with plausible ways we could look, if a society was structured ... this way. Masterpiece.
User Review - 10/10 by Chelsea TThe Silver Planet doesnt have a poster??! this is one of most amazing sci-fi films i've ever seen. can't believed its first made in 1977. how much will it cost today?
User Review - 10/10 by Nicholas AOnce again mr Zulawski has left me lost for words........................dribble
User Review - 10/10 by Chelsea the Psychodefinitely fantastic yet disturbing. can't believe it's made in 1977.
User Review - 8/10 by Todd JIt's been quite awhile since I've been baffled by a film. Even a flick as remote as Inland Empire gave me somewhere to sink in my hands to grab a foothold, but I have no idea what the hell Andrzej Zulawski is really trying to get at here. Maybe it's the endless Shakespearian monologues or the fact that those lousy Commies cut production when it was about 60% done (I think Zulawski claims more, but when you take all the sections that he describes that were cut from the narrative, it becomes a four hour long flick, I'd bet). From time to time throughout the narrative, the story will stop dead and cut over to contemporary (late 80's when the Polish allowed Zulawski back into the country to at least get a version of it set to go out) Polish streets while the director explains in a voiceover the events of the narrative. Who knows how the really long version would have faired? What I think is most important here is to thank God that we have what we do of this film. When you want to talk about how progressive 70's cinema was, you really need to forget about it when referencing this film. There's absolutely nothing approaching the singularity and uniqueness of Zulawski's vision. Wisely, most of the film is set in rural landscapes that, with a little color correction, become as foreign as Godard's Paris in Alphaville. Zulawski's camera never quits, constantly doing something that not even the most brash of contempoary filmmakers would attempt. Perhaps most astounding is a sequence that takes place completely as "lost tapes," if you will, that were taken from a civilization in which the beings have camera on their chests. It sounds ridiculous, and at times, the technique gets fudged, but even with the glut of recent flicks like Cloverfield or Diary of the Dead or even The Blair Witch Project, I have never seen anything comparable. Zulawski's vision of the civilization's development and the ensuing problems when an astronaut decides to go to the country of the "lost tapes" origin. His narrative is even more dense, taking on those allegorical religious drives that Jodorowski rocks at the same time (A.J. also does surrealism but couldn't be further apart from Zulawski in terms of style). Taken with plot alone, we have very distinct commentary on the development of civilization and, I think, an idea of how religion comes to life. That said, I'm not sure that all of the religious imagery and crucifixions are meant to comment on religion as a whole or offer a narrative critical of religion. Of course, a monkey wrench gets thrown into the whole thing with the endless soliloquies that the characters indulge in about every ten minutes. I'm not sure if the subtitles simply butcher the intent, but what I read these people saying seemed to be long-winded for the sake of it rather than to express any kind of unified, relevant idea. That said, I could be being grossly unfair. A film as dense as this certainly warrants multiple viewings. Even if one discovered a lack of philosophical weight to most of the picture, viewings could still be recommended on the sheer strength of Zulawski's visual direction. He casts some of the most grotesquely original and often gorgeous things you've ever seen. That's not to mention a number of eye-popping scenes that need to be seen to be believed. There's one scene involving stakes that I simply cannot comprehend the making of. The Silver Globe's certainly not for everybody. I expect 50% of the people who see it watch it in 15 minute intervals, but if you're looking for a mind-shattering epic that's unlike anything you've ever seen, you're on the right boat, buddy. **** out've *****

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