Android (film)

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Android
Theatrical release poster
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
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Android is a 1982 Science fiction film directed by Aaron Lipstadt and starring Klaus Kinski. The film follows the story of a scientist and his assistant who are working on an illegal android program from their lab on a space station in orbit of the Earth.

It was voted Best Science Fiction Film in 1983, by The Age but has received a somewhat mixed reaction from critics. 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.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 References
- 4.1 Bibliography
5 External links

[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 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.

[edit] Cast

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Actor	Role
Klaus Kinski	Dr. Daniel
Brie Howard	Maggie
Don Keith Opper	Max 404
Kendra Kirchner	Cassandra
Norbert Weisser	Keller
Crofton Hardester	Mendes
Randy Connor	Terrapol: Landing Party
Gary Corarito	Terrapol: Neptune
Mary Ann Fisher	Terrapol: Neptune
Julia Gibson	Terrapol: Minos
Roger Kelton	Terrapol: Landing Party
Darrell Larson	Terrapol: Neptune
Ian Scheibel	Terrapol: Neptune
Wayne Springfield	Terrapol: Minos
Rachel Talalay	Terrapol: Landing Party
Johanne Todd	Terrapol: Landing Party

[edit] Reception

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." George Lucas said that he personally thought the film to be "smart" and "relevant".