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Dark Star
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Dark Star
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| Czech titile:
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Temná hvězda
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| Country and year:
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USA 1974
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| Director:
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John Carpenter
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| Running time:
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83 minutes
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| Screening format:
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HD
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| Version:
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English / Czech subtitles
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| Screening:
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Thursday 5th March 2020 from 18:00
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| Vennue:
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Cinema Aero, Prague
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| Admission:
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150,- Kč
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| Screening:
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Wednesday 11th May 2022 from 18.00
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| Vennue:
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Cinema Metropol, Olomouc
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| Admission:
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140,- Kč
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Bombed out in space with a spaced-out bomb! John Carpenter’s deliberately lo-fi cult comedy Dark Star is a rollicking, anarchic trip into space that sends up Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and other heroic visions of space travel, updating the sci-fi genre for the 70s hippie-slacker-drug counterculture. Instead of valiant space jockeys bravely exploring the unknown, Carpenter and writer Dan O’Bannon - who would later pen the screenplay for Alien - give us “truck drivers in space” stuck on the fringes of the galaxy in a broken-down ship, trudging through the twentieth year of a mission to blow up unstable planets. Pieced together over the course of several years, this debut feature is a highly subversive stuff. In space, no one can see you be weird.
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