On the Silver Globe (film)
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On the Silver Globe (Template:Lang-pl) is a Polish film premiered in 1988, directed by Andrzej Żuławski and adapted from a novel by Jerzy Żuławski.
Plot
Template:Rewrite section A group of astronauts leaves Earth to find freedom, and their spaceship crashes on an unnamed Earth-like planet. The astronauts, equipped with video-recorders, reach a seashore, where they build a village. After many years, only one member of the crew, Jerzy, is still alive, watching the growth of a new society, whose religion is based on mythical tales of an expedition from the Earth. The first off-Earth generation calls him the Old Man, treating him as a demi-God. The Old Man leaves them and before his death sends his video diary back to Earth in a rocket. A space researcher named Marek (Andrzej Seweryn) receives the video diary and travels to the planet. When he arrives, he is welcomed by the cast of priests as the Messiah, who can release them from the captivity of the Szerns, indigenous occupants of the planet. Shortly afterwards, Marek organizes an army and enters the city of the Szerns. Meanwhile, the priests start to believe that Marek was an outcast from the Earth, rather than a messiah who came to fulfill the religious prophecy.
Cast
- Andrzej Seweryn as Marek
- Jerzy Trela
- Grazyna Dylag
- Waldemar Kownacki
- Iwona Bielska
- Jerzy Gralek
- Elzbieta Karkoszka
- Krystyna Janda as The Actress
- Maciej Góraj
- Henryk Talar
- Leszek Dlugosz
- Andrzej Frycz
- Henryk Bista
- Wieslaw Komasa
- Jerzy Golinski
