Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
Test pilota Pirxa
95 min
Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn, but he is determined to find out and identify a hostile unhuman coworker among them.
- Release date
- May 25, 1979
- Country of origin
- Poland, Estonia
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Cast
- Sergei Desnitsky as Commander Pirx
- Vladimir Ivashov as Harry Brown
- Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy as Tom Nowak
- Tõnu Saar as Kurt Weber
- Zbigniew Lesien as John Calder
- Boleslaw Abart as Jan Otis
- Ferdynand Matysik as Green (UNESCO Director)
- Igor Przegrodzki as McGuirr
- Faime Jurno
- Zygmunt Bielawski as Tech Companies Representative
- Janusz Bylczynski as Juge
- Edmund Fetting as Prosecutor
- Józef Fryzlewicz as Defense Attorney
- Mieczysław Janowski as Mitchell
- Eugeniusz Kujawski as Court Member
- Ewa Lejczak
- Henryk Talar as Tom Novak (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Marek Piestrak · Director
- Stanislaw Lem · Writer
- Marek Piestrak · Writer
- Arvo Pärt · Composer
- Eugeniusz Rudnik · Composer
- Janusz Pawłowski · Cinematographer
- Roman Kolski · Editor
- Jerzy Sniezawski · Production designer
- Viktor Zhilko · Production designer