Starfire

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Starfire
Original title Solar crisis
Country of production USA , Japan
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length approx. 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Richard C. Sarafian
(as Alan Smithee )
script Joe Gannon
Crispan Bolt
Book: Takeshi Kawata
production Richard Edlund
Morris Morishima
James Nelson
music Maurice Jarre
Michael Boddicker
camera Russell Carpenter
cut Richard Trevor
occupation

Starfire is an American - Japanese science fiction film from 1990. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian . The film is based on the book Kuraishisu niju-goju nen , which the Japanese Takeshi Kawata wrote in 1990. The film started on August 6, 1992 in several German cinemas.

action

In 2050 the activity of the sun increased enormously. Heat and severe storms affect life on earth. When researchers find out that a gigantic solar flare is imminent that would directly hit the earth, the Helios project is launched.

The spaceship Helios is supposed to bring the probe Ra close to the solar quadrant 17 and place the antimatter bomb Freddy there and detonate it, where the eruption threatens. The mission leader is Steve Kelso. His father, Admiral Skeet Kelso, is looking for Steve's son Mike, who fled the military academy to see his father one last time before leaving for the sun.

The IXL group, on the other hand, does not believe in the Starfire theory and buys up all food supplies in order to be able to make big profits after the crisis has been overcome. The boss of IXL, Arnold Teague, wants the Helios project to fail and has the biogenes Alex Noffe, a leading force of the Helios crew and artificially enhanced intelligence, reprogrammed to sabotage the mission.

Despite several resulting accidents, the Helios can reach the sun. However, the probe's pilot, Ken Minami, dies trying to defuse the manipulated Freddy bomb. At the last second, Alex Noffe thinks about her actual task and flies the Ra into the sun in a kamikaze action . In this way she can avert the deadly solar flare.

In the meantime, Admiral Kelso had tracked down his grandson on Earth in the desert after he had escaped the IXL captors with the help of the hermit Travis Richards.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote: “ Thematically serious, staging but inadequate science fiction film that laboriously combines the confused storylines not visually, but with lots of dialogues. "

Others

  • The film, which cost 55 million US dollars, was released directly on video in the USA, but was shown in theaters for a short time in Germany. Director Richard C. Sarafian was so dissatisfied with the final cut that he withdrew his name from the project. That is why the pseudonym Alan Smithee is named as the director in the credits .
  • The spaceship and vehicle design comes from the industrial designer Syd Mead .
  • The special effects were created by Boss Film Corporation , which is owned by the producer of the film, Richard Edlund .
  • Starfire was Richard C. Sarafian's last film, after which he retired as a director. His son Deran Sarafian is also a director ( Deadly Velocity ).

Comparisons

Danny Boyle's film Sunshine (2007) deals with a similar theme .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Starfire. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 5, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used