Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 American environmental-themed science fiction film. It is the directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull, and stars Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse Vint.
Plot
In the future, all forests on Earth have become extinct from careless environmental exploitation. As many specimens as possible have been preserved in a series of enormous greenhouse-like geodesic domes serving as closed ecological systems attached to large cargo spaceships, forming part of a fleet of eight "American Airlines Space Freighters", stationed outside the orbit of Saturn.
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author | Deric Washburn Michael Cimino Steven Bochco |
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director | Douglas Trumbull |
editor | Aaron Stell |
events | solitude |
genre | adventure science fiction |
keywords | american airlines animal life closed ecological system closed ecological systems deep space drift drive geodesic dome horrify injured orb reforestation rings of saturn saturn saturn\'s rings service robot speak survive wait |
musicBy | Peter Schickele |
producer | Douglas Trumbull Marty Hornstein Michael Gruskoff |
productionCompany | Douglas Trumbull Michael Gruskoff |
publisher | Universal Pictures |
theme | dystopian post-apocalyptic |