fiction.wikisort.org - MovieInquest of Pilot Pirx (Polish: Test pilota Pirxa, Russian: Дознание пилота Пиркса, romanized: Doznaniye pilota Pirksa, Estonian: Navigaator Pirx) is a joint Polish-Soviet 1979 film directed by Marek Piestrak [pl]. It is based on the story "The Inquest" by Stanisław Lem from his 1968 short story collection Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie (Tales of Pirx the Pilot; the story was translated into English in the second part, More Tales of Pirx the Pilot).[3] It was adapted for film by Vladimir Valutsky. It is a joint production by Zespoly Filmowe, and Tallinnfilm. Some of the studio-based filming was done at the Dovzhenko Film Studios.
1978 film by Marek Piestrak
Test pilota Pirxa |
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Directed by | Marek Piestrak [pl] |
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Written by | Vladimir Valutsky Stanisław Lem (story) |
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Starring | Aleksandr Kaidanovsky |
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Cinematography | Janusz Pawlowski |
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Music by | Arvo Pärt Eugeniusz Rudnik[1] |
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Production companies | Zespoly Filmowe Tallinnfilm |
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Running time | 104 minutes[2] |
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Countries | Poland Soviet Union |
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Plot summary
Spaceship pilot Pirx is hired for a mission to test probes to be placed in the Cassini Division, a gap between rings of Saturn, while the real secret goal was to evaluate some nonlinears (androids with "nonlinear" characteristics) for use as crew members on future space flights. The mission meets with a near disaster and the human crew are almost killed. Upon returning to Earth there is an inquest to determine if Pirx was responsible for the accident. Pirx recounts the events and in the end it is established that one of the robots caused the malfunction of a probe and attempted to pass through the Division to launch the probe manually, an attempt which would kill the human crew members and prove the superiority of nonlinears over humans.[4]
Cast
- Sergei Desnitsky as Commandor Pirx
- Aleksandr Kaidanovsky as Tom Nowak, neurologist and cyberneticist
- Vladimir Ivashov as Harry Brown, 2nd Pilot
- Tõnu Saar as Kurt Weber, nucleonicist engineer
- Igor Przegrodzki as McGuirr
- Boleslaw Abart as Jan Otis, electronicist
- Janusz Bylczynski as head judge
- Mieczysław Janowski as Mitchell
- Jerzy Kaliszewski as Dr. Kristoff
- Zbigniew Lesien as John Calder, 1st Pilot
- Ferdynand Matysik as Green, the UNESCO Director
Discussion
In this tale Lem puts forth the idea that what is perceived a human weakness is in fact an advantage over a perfect machine. Pirx defeats the robot because a human can hesitate, make wrong decisions, have doubts, but a robot cannot.[5][4]
Polish film critic Krzysztof Loska thinks that the film adaptation unduly shifted Lem's original focus on the definition of humanity to the trope of robot rebellion.[5]
Reception
Inquest of Pilot Pirx was awarded the "Golden Asteroid" Big Prize at the International Cinema Festival at Trieste 1979.[4]
References
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Novels |
- The Man from Mars (1946)
- Time Not Lost
- Hospital of the Transfiguration (1948)
- The Astronauts (1951)
- The Magellanic Cloud (1955)
- The Investigation (1959)
- Eden (1959)
- Return from the Stars (1961)
- Solaris (1961)
- Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1961)
- The Invincible (1964)
- Highcastle (1966)
- His Master's Voice (1968)
- The Futurological Congress (1971)
- Professor A. Dońda (1973)
- The Chain of Chance (1975)
- Golem XIV (1981)
- Observation on the Spot (1982)
- Fiasco (1986)
- Peace on Earth (1987)
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Short stories |
- "End of the World at Eight O'Clock" (1947)
- The Star Diaries (1957)
- "The Hunt " (1950s)
- "Lymphater's Formula" (1961)
- Fables for Robots (1964)
- The Cyberiad (1965)
- Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1966)
- "The Mask" (1974)
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Major essays |
- Dialogs (1957)
- Summa Technologiae (1964)
- The Philosophy of Chance (1968)
- Science Fiction and Futurology (1970)
- Microworlds (1984)
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Pseudepigraphy |
- A Perfect Vacuum (1971)
- Imaginary Magnitude (1973)
- One Human Minute (1986)
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Plays |
- Korzenie (1940s)
- Do You Exist, Mr. Jones? (1955)
- Faithful Robot (1961)
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Adaptations | Films | |
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TV |
- The Adventures of Pirx (1973)
- Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot (2007)
- Fear of a Bot Planet (1999)
- End of the World at Eight O'Clock (2015)
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Other |
- Cyberiada (opera)
- Solaris (2019 play)
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Characters |
- Ijon Tichy
- Pilot Pirx
- Professor Tarantoga
- Mad scientists
- Lem's robots
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Lemology | People | |
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Works |
- A Stanislaw Lem Reader
- Correspondence of Lem
- Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem
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Other |
- Honors bestowed on Lem
- Neologisms of Stanisław Lem
- Works about Lem
- Year of Lem
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На других языках
- [en] Inquest of Pilot Pirx
[ru] Дознание пилота Пиркса
«Дознание пилота Пиркса» (польск. Test pilota Pirxa, эст. Navigaator Pirx) — советско-польский кинофильм 1978 года режиссёра Марека Пестрака[2] по повести Станислава Лема «Дознание» из цикла «Рассказы о пилоте Пирксе».[3]
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