Synopsis
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
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Cast
- Andrzej SewerynMarek
- Jerzy TrelaJerzy
- Grażyna DylągIhezal
- Waldemar KownackiJacek
- Iwona BielskaMarta
- Jerzy GrałekPiotr
- Elżbieta KarkoszkaAda
- Krystyna JandaAza
- Leszek DługoszTomasz
- Jan FryczTomasz II
Recommendations
- 100
RogerEbert.com
One of the greatest science and moral fiction movies ever made. - 80
The New Yorker
It’s among the most visually extravagant films ever made. - 75
Slant Magazine
It becomes a bleak comic spit into the face of organized religion, organized society, and even organized narrative. - 60
The New York Times
A certain amount of work is required to stitch together a sense of the plot, but as is often the case in Zulawski’s films, the story is less the point than an excuse, a loose temporal conceit holding together flights of visual invention, verbal extravagance and male and female nudity.
