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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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
  3. 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 ...

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    • Marek Piestrak
    • Sci-Fi
    • Sergei Desnitsky
  4. 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 ...

  5. Dec 31, 2014 · 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 into English in four volumes. The film is based on one of these short stories, which is known as The Inquest in the ...

  6. 6/10. An ingenuous science fiction film made by Polish and Russian cinema artists. FilmCriticLalitRao 8 August 2008. Marek Piestrak's film "Test Pilot Pirxa" happens to be one of the most challenging science fiction films made by an East European communist nation.It is based on a story by acclaimed science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem whose ...

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  8. 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 ...

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