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Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it’s the wrong side that he takes in this civil war…Read More »
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Alexander Kluge – Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (1972)
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Alexander Kluge – Raumfahrt als inneres Erlebnis AKA Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999)
Alexander Kluge1991-2000ComedyGermanySci-FiNew sci-fi experimentation quite comical about a power failure during the launch of a Soviet rocket.Read More »
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Peter Sasdy – Doomwatch AKA Island of the Ghouls (1972)
1971-1980MysteryPeter SasdySci-FiUnited KingdomThe waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
A doctor is called in by the authorities to investigate the effects of pollution on the residents of a small island off the Cornish coast. He discovers that pollutants have caused mutations among the island’s populace and that covert MOD activities may be responsible.Read More »
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Alexander Kluge – Der Tag ist nah AKA The Days is Nigh (1997)
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Jan Schmidt – Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon AKA Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
1961-1970ArthouseCzech RepublicJan SchmidtSci-FiPavel Jurácek, one of the leading lights of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s, scripted this bleak portrait of a post-apocalyptic world. After simultaneous nuclear attacks by the East and West wipe out the lion’s share of the Earth’s population, a band of eight women in their mid-twenties to early thirties, led by an elderly female military officer, wander the landscape of Eastern Europe searching for food, supplies, and other survivors. In time, the women discover a dilapidated hotel that has become home for a lonely old man who guards a few tattered remnants of the former civilization — a television that no longer works, an old newspaper, and a wind-up phonograph. Starkly photographed in black-and-white, The End of August at the Hotel Ozone marked the second collaboration between Jurácek and director Jan Schmidt, who previous co-wrote and co-directed the short subject Postava K PodpíráníRead More »
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Pater Sparrow – 1 (2009)
2001-2010HungaryPater SparrowSci-FiA bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.
Based on Stanislaw Lem’s experimental novel One Human Minute.Read More »
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Valeri Rubinchik – Otstupnik AKA The Apostate (1987)
Valeri Rubinchik1981-1990PoliticsSci-FiUSSRScientist creates a machine that is able to clone human beings. Soon the Government wants to take hold of it for military purposes.Read More »
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Juliusz Machulski – Seksmisja AKA Sexmission (1984)
1981-1990ComedyJuliusz MachulskiPolandSci-FiTwo scientists are placed in hibernation and should be awaken after three years. But when they wake up, it turns out that it has been fifty years, and they are the only two males in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.Read More »
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Enzo G. Castellari – I nuovi barbari AKA The New Barbarians AKA Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)
Enzo G. Castellari1981-1990ActionItalySci-FiTwo mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.Read More »