Na Srebnym Globie (On The Silver Globe) is in my opinion, Zulawski's masterpiece. It is so impressive - and definitely one of my favourite films of all time. It is one of those films you can watch over and over again. It's a very special kind of sci-fi film and quite unlike anything the West would, or could produce, especially back in the 70s and 80s. It's certainly not the easy to swallow Star Wars type of sci-fi film, but more in the same kind of serious abstract style you find in films like 2001 or THX1138. All the images are outstanding and it long deserves a 4K restoration - we can only hope that MONDO-vision are allowed to make another fantastic release similar to their beautiful Possession ltd blu ray box set, which is surely the definitive version, complete with a CD score. NSG is based on a story written by his father, and it was obviously a labour of love for Zulawski, which it took him about 10 difficult years to complete, from 1976-86, after which it was withdrawn. Zulawski was devastated when a draconian communist censor had a 5th of his film destroyed and he tried to cement the images with bizarre explainatory footage (which only makes it even more disjointed). The film remained unseen until the mid 90s and meanwhile shoddy bootleg versions have been released on dvd. Every image of this amazing film is captivating. It has breathtaking camerawork and an atmosphere which is enhanced only by the magnificent score by Andrzej Korsynski, who mixes classical with space rock in his own Eastern European way. Highly recommended!
@faqpronouns
4 жыл бұрын
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@tancredelegalileen9777
2 жыл бұрын
Jerzy Żuławski is not Andrzej's father. He's his grand-uncle.
@guderheinz
2 жыл бұрын
Also, the movie didn't take 10 years to make. It was filmed for about a year in the 70's, than the communist government halted production and demanded that sets, costumes etc., be destroyed. The film crew managed to save the reels of film (as I understand it - all of them, but maybe some were destroyed). The missing scenes were mostly never filmed. Later in the 80's the new government (still communist, BTW) invited Żuławski to come back to Poland and finish the movie. At this point, 10 years after the initial filming, finishing the movie in a conventional manner was simply out of the question, so he decided to just film some random scenes of then-modern-day Warsaw and read the missing scenes out loud from the script, and later edit the whole mess together as best he could. From what I've heard in interviews from that period, he didn't have much faith in or passion for that project at this point. The "finished" movie was screened at Cannes, but full distribution was indeed postponed till mid to late 90's.
@bratbrata4974
Жыл бұрын
During the communist period in Poland there was censorship. SF literature, due to the fact that it did not refer to reality in a direct way, was an excellent tool for expressing one's own reflections on reality.
@sandalphonico
4 жыл бұрын
I didn't understand nothing from the plot. But hell, such beautiful film!
@caidee
Ай бұрын
its basically boom boom I hate communism and being opressed boom
@lemsip207
7 жыл бұрын
It has a late 80's look to it rather than a late 70's look. Would love to see this in the UK with English subtitles.
@Derek_Smallshorts
7 жыл бұрын
lemsip The restored 4K version was rereleased in the UK last year. I saw it at HOME in Manchester.
@Alligator-tu8vz
6 жыл бұрын
Derek where you get the 4k version?
@richardking3206
Жыл бұрын
Eureka are just releasing a 3 film Zulawski box set, including On the Silver Globe. Go get it!
@moeezS
7 жыл бұрын
Has Zulawski ever used rock and roll in any of his other movies?
@victorianopieretti7412
7 жыл бұрын
Yes, He used Rock in "The Third Part Of The Night" and in "Devil" (His first 2 feature films) :)
@moeezS
7 жыл бұрын
Victoriano Pieretti I just saw Third Part Of The Night and heard the rock. About to watch Devil and then this one :)
@dejureclaims8214
7 жыл бұрын
WHERE CAN I SEE THIS!?
@Gypsywasteland
3 жыл бұрын
Wtf this played at Lincoln center?? Why is it so hard to find
@tancredelegalileen9777
2 жыл бұрын
If you still haven't found the movie I can give you a hand
@Gypsywasteland
2 жыл бұрын
@@tancredelegalileen9777 ???
@arturrudolf9389
Жыл бұрын
"Jacek" (Waldemar Kownacki)
@mattiadei8402
3 жыл бұрын
where can i find this masterpiece?! Please somebody help me, it's nowhere for god sake
@iscream2232
3 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see Toufaan (the company that releases Zulawskis work) release this on special edition blu ray but i haven't heard a peep about a proper release. The only way I know to see it is from downloading a torrent. Its available on most of the major sites
@mattiadei8402
3 жыл бұрын
@@iscream2232 thanks dude
@termutis1899
3 жыл бұрын
@@mattiadei8402 if ur still looking for it I have a Vimeo link
@mattiadei8402
3 жыл бұрын
@@termutis1899 yes please!!
@DforDado
2 жыл бұрын
Can someone tell me how this is a masterpiece when I understood nothing? I know it's supposed to be Art and that it has a message of sorts but why always make it so vague and indescribable and hard to digest. At first I was actually following the story but then it I just got so lost, I couldn't follow anymore. I finished the film. The visuals are striking and awesome but I hoped I would understand the story more and the meaning better.
@guderheinz
2 жыл бұрын
The story is based on a series of Polish sci-fi books from years 1900-1910 which, to my knowledge, were never translated into English (also the books were written by the granduncle of the director). Żuławski is known for making surrealist cinema, very hard to follow, especially when dialogue is concerned (I'm a native Polish speaker and I have trouble with comprehending what half of the spoken lines are about, even though I technically understand all the words). Some people see great art in such cinema, some see it as unintelligible ramblings. I would say I'm somewhere in the middle in regards to this particular flick. The fact that the movie production was halted by the Polish government before filming could get done doesn't help either - some of the missing scenes are just read from the script by the director, with shots of late 80's Warsaw going by on screen. I will try to summarize the plot, although I will probably omit many of the more expressionist intentions of the director. In the beginning two astronauts on an apparently alien planet are brought a recording device which came in a space vehicle. The recordings are a diary of a different set of space travelers who landed on the Moon (it's never specifically said in the movie it's our Moon, but that is the case in the original books). These recordings make up the first 1/3 or half of the movie. The expedition crash lands and two of its members die. The remaining three (Piotr, Marta, Jerzy) make a settlement near a sea and intend to create a new society, better than the one they left on Old Earth. Unfortunately, their offspring (which grows up much more quickly here than on Earth) quickly deteriorates into a superstitious, tribal system. Jerzy is the only one of the original astronauts who lives long enough to become old and see the new society develop. The new humans create a sort of religion and make Jerzy their god. Eventually, the leader of the new humans, of the second generation of astronauts' offspring, decides to sail with an expedition across the sea to expand their territory. Only one person manages to come back from this expedition and warns the humans who stayed by the sea that an alien race of birdlike Sherns lives on the other shore. The Sherns are preparing to invade their settlement. Jerzy travels back to his old spaceship and launches his recordings into space, after which he dies of old age. Years later a new astronaut, Marek, arrives on the Moon, presumably after receiving the above recordings. He meets up with the humans, who are now living under Shern rule, which is cruel and incomprehensible to them. The humans believe Marek to be a messiah prophesied to deliver them from Sherns and they call him The Victor. Marek rather gladly assumes this role and leads humans in a revolt against the aliens. They manage to expel the Shern forces (which mainly consist of the Mortzes - half breeds spawned from Shern fathers and human mothers - who are fanatically loyal to the aliens) from the human shore and capture the Shern leader, Awij. Marek tries to interrogate him at some point in order to understand the aliens, but to no avail - the Shern has strange mental powers and almost manages to mesmerize him. Marek is universally hailed as the messiah and savior of the humans. He is betrothed to the daughter of the human high priest. Most of the people are devoted to him completely, although some priests begin to scheme behind his back. Nevertheless, Marek decides to take the fight to the Shern shore and travels with a large army across the sea. He manages to make some initial headway into the Shern city, which is described as strange and beatiful (looks like a bunch of ruins to me, to be quite frank, but that's how it is described in one of the excerpts from the script), but ultimately succumbs to Shern superiority and has to retreat. He manages to come back with only a few of his followers and is appalled to see that the society he left behind succumbed further into religious fanaticism: the human shore is littered with impaled people, thus punished for voicing even the slightest doubt in the Messiah. In fact, the humans become so entranced by their religion, that seeing Marek's failure to overcome their enemies, they begin to openly doubt even him. Furthermore, while he was away in battle, the captive Shern Awij managed to manipulate his betrothed and turn her to his side (Sherns are supposed to give human women unparalleled pleasure during sex). This further undermines Marek's status. In the end, while Marek dreams of reforming the society into a more liberal and enlightened one (even by force, if necessary), the humans capture him, stone him and crucify him. That's basically the end, although there is also a subplot taking place on the planet from which Marek came (possibly it is the same planet which we see at the very beginning of the movie, seeing as the same strangely clad tribal people on horses are seen in both settings). It revolves around his friend and fellow astronaut, Jacek, and his lover, Aza. Aza started an affair with Jacek and they both conspired to send Marek to the Moon, in order to get rid of him and be able to frolic freely. During Marek's exploits on the moon, his friend who stayed with Aza begins to have regrets about what he had done to him. Aza, on the other hand, appears unfazed by her actions and is fine to just have fun and do whatever she feels like. This part of the movie is so poorly edited in that it is almost completely incomprehensible without knowing the plot of the books. It is somewhat important however, because the pain Marek feels because of Aza's adultery is a major drive for his actions on the Moon. Also, it seems that somehow Jacek appears at the very end on the Moon and during the crucifixion scene shoots down the Shern Awij, who hovers above agonized Marek, mocking him. I'm not sure if that is supposed to be a dream of the dying hero, or what. The movie is considered to be a negative allegory of the Bible, supposedly saying that people are naturally inclined to invent religion in their time of strife to gain hope, but that religion ultimately leads to wickedness and cruelty. It poses many questions about the nature of human existence in general, without giving any concrete answers, apart from some pessimistic, vague suggestions. It also may have some slight autobiographical elements, as at the time of filming the director was freshly done with a divorce and felt betrayed and hurt by his former spouse (in the script Marek's last words were supposed to be “Aza, I loved you so... How it hurts!”). There, I hope I didn't bore you to death with this intimidating wall of possibly rambling text. Have a good one!
@DforDado
2 жыл бұрын
@@guderheinz Thank you for this very considerate reply! Kudos to you!
@raymondstpaul4913
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation I was totally lost watching the video clips of this film trying to figure what was going on. Based on what you explained its a real depressing movie almost as depressing as that The Road apocalypse film came out years ago.
@guderheinz
2 жыл бұрын
@@raymondstpaul4913 Sweet, I'm glad somebody had a use for my tirade :D Yeah, the movie conveys a rather bleak message about the human condition, but I find a lot of things that I agree with in it (assuming that my interpretations actually overlap with the authors' intentions, which isn't that obvious...). It's not a good movie for a casual afternoon watch (and arguably it's not a good movie at all), but with the proper mood and some mental readiness you may find some interesting things in it.
@DforDado
2 жыл бұрын
@@raymondstpaul4913 I've read the novel and the watched the film. Holy crap.
@jkellis2
3 жыл бұрын
See James Cameron this is how you do sci-fi and expressive characters, not millions of dollars on crappy CGI and a story that is garbage.
@DforDado
2 жыл бұрын
I couldn't understand this story and I know Cameron's get the hate cause it's too shallow. But I'd choose to understand more than to decipher. Maybe you can tell me what makes this better than the rest of the "garbage"?
@JackSparrow-nq5wh
2 жыл бұрын
You're smoking crack. Cameron is one of the best sci Fi action directors of all time. Terminator 1 and 2, Aliens, and The Abyss are all classics.
@DforDado
2 жыл бұрын
@@JackSparrow-nq5wh This. Again, I find it a bit ridiculous that in order for something to be considered _Art,_ it has to be somewhat incomprehensible and only a few could really _grasp_ its meaning or whatever.
@guderheinz
2 жыл бұрын
@@DforDado Fully agree with you. For many years I considered this film a pile of incomprehensible garbage, fawned over only by pretentious artsy-fartsy cats with too much free time on their hands. But, after deciding to give it one more try (honestly, a third) and later digging into the plot of the actual books, the history of the making of the movie and some info about people involved in it, some things finally clicked for me and I was able to get out some more or less satisfying meaning from it for myself (not to mention that I always found some of the decorations and costumes used in it very atmospheric and cool). Today I can cautiously say that I like this movie. BUT! I won't start going around saying that it is a masterpiece of cinema, which would single-handedly change the entire genre of sci-fi if it only were allowed to be finished in the 70's. It's a weird film, a hermetic film, made with almost complete disregard for the needs and expectations of regular audience. It's definitely not good. It's different and it may be interesting to some. If you happen to be one of those "some", good for you. But it doesn't make you special, smarter or more cultured by any means. Oh, and I thought Avatar was crap too. The only thing I liked about that blue-cat movie was the over-the-top military officer, who was so campy it was impossible not to love him. Doesn't change the fact that Terminator 1 is some first-grade, classic sci-fi awesomeness.
@DforDado
2 жыл бұрын
@@guderheinz Man, when you said campy I knew you had great taste. And yeah, thanks for your opinion. I mean Avatar's story wasn't anything new, but the world was nice to look at. I did watch some zoology videos etc and found out that, realistically, the blue cat people should have had two extra pair of eyes and maybe limbs, due to the genetic make-up of every creature on the planet. Their species had to evolve from somewhere but they're the only ones who are too human-like in that world which already doesn't make sense, scientifically. So yeah, I was like, I guess that's fine, I can roll with it. Maybe so people can easily identify/relate to these characters. Thank you, really, for your input. You're a cool cat. hahaha
@raymondstpaul4913
2 жыл бұрын
Um...what? He gets a drug high? The point of this scene? Is this a post apocalypse movie? Someone please explain the plot of this film I'm totally lost.
@guderheinz
2 жыл бұрын
In this particular scene it is Jacek, the friend of Marek the Victor, who conspired to send him out to the Moon, in order to continue his affair with Marek's girlfriend, Aza. He is indeed taking a drug. This scene is a kind of reversal of the first scene of the movie, in which two astronauts are clearly superior to the fur-clad natives and rule over them by occasionally offering them some euphoric drugs. As you can see, here (many years later, according to the script) the roles are switched - the natives are the ones offering the drug to the astronaut, who must almost beg them for it on his knees. The movie never explains how this role-reversal took place, BTW. However, why EXACTLY he asks them for the drug, I don't fully understand :D Jacek says that he needs this drug in order to "truly see" (more or less). Right before this scene he felt awful guilt about what he had done to Marek, so maybe he wants the drug to rid himself of this guilt, at least for a moment. Maybe he hopes that in a drug-induced high he may "see" a way to somehow atone for his sins against his friend. Unfortunately, these are just my ideas, nothing in the movie ever clearly explains his motivations or his ultimate goal from this scene. But, you can't deny, it is a pretty nifty shot picture, with nice use of okay-ish rock to boot ^^
@raymondstpaul4913
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your explanation making it clearer for me to understand
@tablescissors
3 жыл бұрын
Oh. It's just about drugs.
@guderheinz
2 жыл бұрын
That's one way to see it and it certainly isn't unfounded :D
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