Android (film)

Android (film)

Infobox Film
name = Android



caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Aaron Lipstadt
producer = Mary Ann Fisher
writer = Don Keith Opper
James Reigle
Will Reigle
starring = Klaus Kinski
Brie Howard
music = Don Preston
cinematography = Tim Suhrstedt
editing = Andy Horvitch
distributor = New World Pictures
released = October 1982
runtime = 80 min
country =
language = English
amg_id = 1:2246
imdb_id = 0083557

"Android" is a 1982 Science fiction film directed by Aaron Lipstadt and starring Klaus Kinski. The film follows the story of a scientist and his assistant who are working on an illegal android program from their lab on a space station in orbit of the Earth.

It was voted Best Science Fiction Film in 1983, by "The Age" but has received a somewhat mixed reaction from critics. It was completely filmed in 4 weeks and edited together in a further 3 weeks. The original version was 80 minutes long and none of the original content was removed before release.

Plot

The film follows the story of Doctor Daniel (Klaus Kinski) and his assistant Max 404 (Don Keith Opper) who work on a space lab in the year 2036 on an illegal android program. The Doctor is working on the creation of a female robot Cassandra One (Kendra Kirchner). When Max saves a space craft he meets his first human woman. It is eventually revealed that Daniel is himself an Android. After his eventual demise Max and Cassandra return to an Earth where androids have been banned since the Munich revolution, posing as Daniel and his assistant.

Cast

Reception

The film received a mixed response being praised in Europe but receiving a less positive reaction in the United States. It was described by Cinefantastique as "a typical New World production that opens nice, but soon short-circuits with all the clichés of the genre." However this can be contrasted with the views of leading science fiction author David Wingrove who describes the review by Cinefastique as witless "Rot! Android stays firmly nice from start to finish" He particularly praises the work done on such a low budget saying that "you can't buy or budget love. When money is sparse, invention is all." George Lucas said that he personally thought the film to be "smart" and "relevant".

References

Bibliography

* Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)

External links

* [http://www.cyberpunkReview.com/movie/decade/1980-1989/android/ cyberpunkReview.com: Android]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083557 Internet Movie Database]


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