Sador - ruler in space
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sador - ruler in space |
| Original title | Battle Beyond the Stars |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jimmy T. Murakami |
| script |
Anne Dyer John Sayles |
| production |
Ed Carlin Roger Corman |
| music | James Horner |
| camera | Daniel Lacambre |
| cut |
Allan Holzman Robert J. Kizer |
| occupation | |
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Sador is an American science fiction film directed by B-movie producer Roger Corman from 1980.
action
The humanoid inhabitants of the peaceful planet Akir are threatened by the Malmori tyrant Sador. He has a weapon on board his spaceship , the stellar converter, with which he can destroy all life on the planet. He gives the population a week's ultimatum to submit to him. Using a manned, obsolete weather satellite, he destroys the planet's only apparent presence in space and indiscriminately kills a few residents in support of his claims. The peaceful civilization has forgotten how to fight, only a blind elder named Zed has lived through a period of war. They also seek advice from a code called Varda. Zed's advice, however, is: the best way to fight violent creatures is with violent creatures , and so the young pilot Shad is sent out with the only spaceship to hire mercenaries . Despite the fact that the planet has no significant wealth, Zed in particular is confident that mercenaries will be found who are willing to fight for other reasons. The spaceship is named Nell, it speaks in a motherly voice and teaches the peaceful Shad to use the spaceship's weapons.
The first target is a huge space station with only Dr. Hephaestus lives with his daughter Nanelia with some robots. Dr. Hephaestus, who is artificially kept alive, wants to keep Shad with him, and he is supposed to look after children with his daughter, who has never seen other people. However, Nanelia understands Shad's mission and helps him to escape. A little later she joins a modern spaceship and wins Cayman, whose civilization was wiped out by Sador, as an ally. With him there are two thermal beings who only communicate with each other through heat. Shed saves the life of the space cowboy from Earth. He loaded handguns, but the system where he was supposed to deliver is being destroyed by Sador with the converter. In gratitude for his rescue, the space cowboy promises to take care of Akir's ground defense. The continued search for mercenaries brings Shad to Nestor, a telepathic species of many clones - referred to in the film as facets - with a shared identical consciousness. They join out of boredom. On a neglected planet, Shad meets the bounty hunter Gelt in an abandoned underground city. This is a rich man, but who has made so many enemies that he cannot count on refuge and support anywhere else. The last being to join the alliance is the warlike Valkyrie Saint-Exmin, who flies in a tiny spaceship and is therefore not taken seriously by Shad.
The confrontation with Sador begins when the spaceships reach Akir and intercept and destroy the abandoned enemy patrol. In a first space battle, small ships are destroyed and the main ship of Sadors is weakened. The battle on the ground develops in favor of the defenders, but the sonic weapon used by Sador appears invincible. The thermal beings that have no ears overheat the weapon and incapacitate it. The fighting resulted in high casualties. During a break in the fight, a clone can be captured so that the other beings can get more information about Sador and his main ship. The clone that cannot stand pain dies from torture. Sador, who always needs new body parts, has an arm of the clone transferred. Nestor tries to control his arm with mental powers and to force Sador to slit his throat with his own blade. He can only barely prevent this and the arm is amputated again. Air combat flares up again in the dispute. The stellar converter should be used. Saint-Exmin steers an enemy spaceship into the weapon and dies according to the motto of their race: live fast, fight well, and have a glorious beautiful ending. Finally, the space cowboy and Cayman sacrifice each other in a seemingly hopeless fight. The spaceship Nell is hit and loses memory. When Sador's ship is hit by a tractor beam , Shad and Nanelia, now a couple, flee with an escape pod. The self-destruct mechanism of their spaceship then also destroys Sador's ship. Shad notes that the fallen rescuers will always remain in the minds of the people of Akir.
criticism
“The strip is not meant seriously; you shouldn't take this joke from the Roger Corman Factory seriously. "
"Inventive and staged with humor, the film entertains friends of the genre acceptably despite some questionable elements."
backgrounds
The film is an adaptation of The Magnificent Seven (also with Robert Vaughn ), which in turn is based on The Seven Samurai . In the film there are ultimately seven spaceships that could be found to save the planet. The name of the planet Akir honors the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa .
For some special effects , the then unknown James Cameron and Alec Gillis (who later became known for creating the creatures in Alien vs. Predator ) were hired. For both, the film was the entry into the film business.
The spaceship backdrop was later used again in the films Space Raiders by Roger Corman, Starquest II and Dead Space . Footage was used in a movie theater scene towards the end of the Bachelor Party film and was incorporated into the Astron Belt laser disc game . The soundtrack came u. a. in the movie Raptor again. A four-part comic series from Bluewater Productions from 2010 tells the story of the adventures of the young Zed and his spaceship Nell. The characters Dr. Hephaestus and Sador also appear in it.
Premieres
- USA: September 8, 1980
- Germany: November 13, 1980
Awards
- 1981: Saturn Award nomination for best science fiction film
- 1981: Saturn Award nomination for costumes
- 1981: Saturn Award nomination for make-up
- 1981: Saturn Award nomination for special effects
Web links
- Sador - ruler in space in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Sador - ruler in space atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Original advertising material at kinogucker
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sador - ruler in space. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Alec Gillis, foreword by James Cameron: Worlds: A Mission of Discovery. page 6