Android (film)

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Android
Directed by	Aaron Lipstadt
Produced by	Mary Ann Fisher
Written by	Don Keith Opper James Reigle Will Reigle
Starring	Klaus Kinski Brie Howard
Music by	Don Preston
Cinematography	Tim Suhrstedt
Editing by	Andy Horvitch
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date(s)	October 1982
Running time	80 min
Country
Language	English
IMDb profile

Android is a 1982 Science fiction film starring Klaus Kinski and Directed by Aaron Lipstadt. It was voted Best Science Fiction Film 1983, by The Age. It was completely filmed in 4 weeks and edited together in a further 3 weeks. The original version was 80 minutes long and none of the original content was removed before release.

The film received a mixed response being praised in Europe but receiving a less positive reaction in the United States. It was described by Cinefantastique as "a typical New World production that opens nice, but soon short-circuits with all the clichés of the genre." However this can be contrasted with the views of leading science fiction author David Wingrove who describes the review by Cinefastique as witless "Rot! Android stays firmly nice from start to finish" He particularly praises the work done on such a low budget saying that "you can't buy or budget love. When money is sparse, invention is all."

[edit] Plot

The film follows the story of Doctor Daniel (Klaus Kinski) and his assistant Max 404 (Don Keith Opper) who work on a space lab in the year 2036 on an illegal android program. The Doctor is working on the creation of a female robot Cassandra One (Kendra Kirchner). When Max saves a a space craft he meets his first human woman. It is eventually revealed that Daniel is himself an Android. After his eventual demise Max and Cassandra return to an Earth where androids have been banned since the Munich revolution, posing as Daniel and his assistant.