On the Silver Globe

Żuławski’s masterpiece about a team of astronauts who land on a desolate planet and start a new society. When filming was 80% complete, the Polish government ordered the production to be shut down and all the negatives be destroyed. Miraculously, the original film reels were preserved and ten years later the film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim.

Special screening in honor of the 150th anniversary of writer Jerzy Żuławski’s birth (1874-1915), great uncle of Andrzej Żuławski (1940-2016), whose Lunar Trilogy (1903-1911) inspired On the Silver Globe and Solaris by Stanisław Lem. In collaboration with the Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta.