SYNOPSIS
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.
CAST & CREW
Andrzej Żuławski
Director
Script
Andrzej Żuławski
Director of Photography
Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz
Production designer
Tadeusz Kosarewicz, Jerzy Śnieżawski
Music by
Andrzej Korzyński
Sound
Michal Zarnecki
Edit
Krzysztof Osiecki
Cast
Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Jerzy Gralek, Elżbieta Karkoszka, Krystyna Janda.
Production company(ies)
Zespól Filmowy Kadr
Andrzej Żuławski
Born in Lvov, Ukraine; then he moved with his father writer Miroslaw Żuławski to Czechoslovakia and later to Poland. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. In the 1960s, he was an assistant of the famous Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. His feature debut The Third Part of the Night (1971) was an adaptation of his father's novel. His second feature The Devil (1972) was prohibited in Poland, and Żuławski went to France. After the success of his French debut L'important c'est d'aimer (1975) in 1975, he returned to Poland where he spent two years in making On the Silver Globe (1988). The work on this film was brutally interrupted by the authorities. After that, Żuławski moved to France where became known for his highly artistic, controversial, and very violent films. Żuławski is well known for his ability to discover and "rediscover" actresses. Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau played their best parts in his films.
Filmography
The Third Part of the Night (1971), The Devil (1972), L'important c'est d'aimer (1975), Possession (1981), La femme publique (1984), L'amour braque ( 1985), On the Silver Globe (1988), My Nights Are More Beautiful than Your Days (1989), Boris Godounov (1989), La note bleue (1991), Szamanka (1996 ), Fidelity (2000), Cosmos (2015).
