Red Planet

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Movie
German title Red Planet
Original title Red Planet
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK / JMK 12
Rod
Director Antony Hoffman
script Chuck Pastor ,
Jonathan Lemkin
production Bruce Berman ,
Mark Canton ,
Jorge Saralegui
music Melissa R. Kaplan ,
Graeme Revell
camera Peter Suschitzky
cut Robert K. Lambert ,
Dallas Puett
occupation

Red Planet is an American science fiction film from 2000 in which a small group of astronauts set out to prepare to colonize Mars . The main characters are Carrie-Anne Moss and Val Kilmer . The film opened in German cinemas on March 1, 2001.

action

After the earth threatens to become uninhabitable due to increasing pollution, preparations for the colonization of Mars will begin in 2025 . With unmanned probes , algae are exposed on its surface, which are supposed to produce oxygen . The project seems to have worked for two decades, until suddenly the oxygen concentration starts to drop again. A group of scientists led by the commander and pilot Kate Bowman set off on the Mars-1 spacecraft to investigate the problem.

As soon as they arrive, the astronauts run into trouble when their ship gets caught in a solar flare . Bowman stays on board and tries to put everything back in order. The rest of the crew - copilot Ted Santen, flight engineer Rob Gallagher, the scientists Burchenal, Chantilas and Pettengill as well as the four-legged navigation and combat robot AMEE - leave the ship in a landing capsule that deviates from course. After a botched landing, the men leave the capsule. However, Chantilas is so badly injured that he is left to die. Meanwhile, Bowman can extinguish a fire that has broken out on board the spaceship by venting the air into space . Eventually it can stabilize Mars-1 in a circular orbit around Mars.

On the surface, the men set out in search of their habitat HAB-1 to replenish their air supplies. However, you must find that it has been destroyed. This is how they prepare to die. In a lonely moment there is an argument between Pettengill and Santen, with the latter falling into a rocky gorge and dying. Shortly afterwards it turns out that the atmosphere is breathable, and the remaining three are saved for the time being. They make a campfire and meet AMEE, whose processor was damaged in the crash. When the astronauts try to deactivate him, the robot regards them as enemies and injures Burchenal.

After AMEE's withdrawal, the men search for the US Mars probe Pathfinder , which landed on Mars in 1997. Their Rover Sojourner contains a communication unit with which they want to get in contact with Bowman. When radio communication with Bowman is restored, they learn that their only chance to leave the planet is with an old Russian Mars probe that did not return to Earth as originally planned. Followed by their runaway robot, they set off, but get caught in a storm and have to hide in a cave. There Gallagher reveals to the others that only two of them will have room in the probe. He declares that he wants to stay behind.

Gallagher and Burchenal wake up from a brief sleep and discover that Pettengill has disappeared: he wants to fly without them, but is attacked and killed by AMEE. When the two find it, they stumble upon the algae, believed to be lost, and discover that they serve as food for a species of omnivorous Martian insects , whose digestive process produces enough oxygen for an entire atmosphere and makes the animals very easily flammable. Burchenal is attacked by the insects and blows himself up with them. After Gallagher has reached the Russian Mars probe, he tries to activate it. However, the probe's accumulators no longer contain enough energy. Gallagher therefore needs an alternative source of energy. In a final duel with AMEE, he succeeds in outsmarting him and securing his energy cell. With the energy cell he can now start the Russian Mars probe and thus return to Mars-1 . With a few specimens of the beetles and thus a means of renewing the earth's atmosphere, he and Bowman set off on the journey home, where they soon get closer.

synchronization

role actor German voice actor
Kate Bowman Carrie-Anne Moss Martina Treger
Rob Gallagher Val Kilmer Torsten Sense
Burchenal Tom Sizemore Jörg Hengstler
Ted Santen Benjamin Bratt Leon Boden
Chantilas Terence Stamp Friedrich Georg Beckhaus
Pettengill Simon Baker Andreas Fröhlich
Lucille Jessica Morton Andreschka Grossmann

background

  • Most of the "Mars scenes" were shot in Jordan .
  • In some scenes of the film, product placements are used , for example the patches on the spacesuits.
  • The film was a commercial flop, grossing only about $ 30 million worldwide at a cost of $ 75 million.
  • The film Mission to Mars was released in the same year . In both films the spaceship is called " Mars One ". The same name was also borne by an initiative that wanted to build a permanent settlement on Mars.

Reviews

“Science fiction film that is particularly careful with the technical details, while in the dialogues it tries to convey the rational belief in progress and technology of people with questions about the existence of God and the meaning of the category 'trust in God ' to meet. Since he neither designs interesting characters nor can tell his story in an exciting way, there is nothing more than a paper-based, anemic cinematic draft. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Furious trip into space with nice tricks - The 75 million dollar, skillfully told fight for survival impresses with stylish equipment and sophisticated tricks. And the crazy robot is really phenomenal! "

- TV movie

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Red Planet in the German dubbing index
  2. ↑ Red Planet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 1, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ TV feature film issue 03/08, p. 201.

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