Excellent movie


East German sci fi! what a treat. Very good film, now available on Netflix.

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good movie but I wouldn't call it excellent, but very "unique" and kind of odd (in a good way)





When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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It's one of the movies where you ask "What were they thinking?" It's full of odd motifs - I just don't see how East Germany came up with this. The spaceship crew has this disco-ABBA kind of look and the "bad guys" have a sort of Village People look. The dancers wear skimpy outfits under sheer skirts - then there are the heads - perhaps inspired by Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946)
But the central character, Akala still manages to be a compelling character - she's a female Captain Kirk.

And you've got to love some of the flimsy sets - the crew acting like they're in hypersleep - yeah, they closed their eyes for a moment - they step out of their spaceship and immediately take their helmets off - I guess they wanted the crew to have their helmets on for the trailer...

There's nothing political in the plot so far as I am concerned. Ridley Scott's Alien had more of an anti-big-business theme.

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