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Inquest of Pilot Pirx. Inquest of Pilot Pirx ( Polish: Test pilota Pirxa, Russian: Дознание пилота Пиркса, romanized : Doznaniye pilota Pirksa, Estonian: Navigaator Pirx) is a joint Polish - Soviet 1979 film directed by Marek Piestrak [ pl]. It is based on the short story "The Inquest" by Stanisław Lem from his 1968 short ...
May 25, 1979 · Pilot Pirx's Inquest: Directed by Marek Piestrak. With Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy. Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Marek Piestrak
- 1979-05-25
Dec 31, 2014 · Pirx desperately tries to think to a way to use human weakness to outwit the non-linear’s superior abilities. Test Pilot Pirx is a film based the character of the spaceship pilot Pirx created by Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. Pirx appeared in Lem’s short story collection Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1968), which are translated ...
Apr 21, 2015 · Tarkovsky’s another major work, “Solaris”, was based on Lem, as was “Test Pilota Pirxa” (“Navigaator Pirx” in Estonian), directed by Marek Piestrak and screened in 1979. A co-production of studios in Poland, Ukraine and Estonia, “Pirx” looked and smelled very Western, visualising not only an Utopian setting, but also anonymous ...
His task is to identify which one. Not so much a whodunit as a who-is-it, Test Pilot Pirx weaves a nice line in Seventies sci-fi paranoia, stirring elements from Capricorn One (1978) and The Parallax View (1974) with a more cerebral take on Futureworld (1976). Well-paced, the sleek, expansive yet ever so slightly oppressive production design ...
- Marek Pestrak
- 7 (from 1 vote)
- Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction
- 1978
Test Pilot Pirx. Cmdr. Pirx (Sergei Desnitsky) is ordered to lead five astronauts on a space mission to Saturn. But his orders also entail his identifying which one of the crew members is secretly ...
- Sci-Fi
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Marek Piestrak. Director, Writer. Stanisław Lem. Novel. Vladimir Valutskiy. Writer. Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the ...
