On The Silver Globe
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The "best sci-fi film" never made? That's what Andrzej Zulawski's project has been called. Shut down by the Polish government before production had finished in 1977, the film wasn't completed and released until 1987. It's a visually stunning and wildly ambitious exploration of myth, religion and being human in an alien world. Zulawski (1940-2016) studied cinema in France and became known for art-house films working with actresses including Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau. Matthew Sweet and his guests Daniel Bird, Sarah Dillon and David Hering, have been watching On the Silver Globe.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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| 0:39.5 | We're going to the Silver Globe. |
| 0:42.0 | We're going for an encounter with a film |
| 0:44.4 | that actually looks like it's come from another planet. |
| 0:47.7 | And that planet is Communist Poland. |
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