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Plot summary. Spaceship pilot Pirx is hired for a mission to test probes to be placed in the Cassini Division, a gap between rings of Saturn, while the real secret goal was to evaluate some nonlinears ( androids with "non linear " characteristics) for use as crew members on future space flights.
May 25, 1979 · With Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy. Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Marek Piestrak
- 1979-05-25
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...
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- Marek Piestrak
- Sci-Fi
- Sergei Desnitsky
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
Dec 31, 2014 · Director: Marek Piestrak. Category: Science Fiction. Themes: Soviet Cinema, Androids, Space Exploration, Courtroom and Legal Dramas, Polish Cinema, Films of 1979. Soviet SF from a novel by Solaris author Stanislaw Lem about trying to work out who aboard a space mission is an android saboteur.
Seasoned space pilot Pirx is sent on a mission to Saturn to evaluate ’nonlinears’–androids that are supposedly indistinguishable from humans. He knows one of the crew members is an android, but he doesn’t know which one, leading to a dangerous game with his secret opponent and a shady corporation.
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Test pilota Pirxa. Commander Pirx is charged with a test flight around Saturn to test new automatic probes for passing through the Cassini Division. Behind the ostensible goal, however, there is another, more sensitive mission. Only some of the five-person crew are human; the others are robots.
