150 minutes of passionate and complicated science fiction, interspersed with documentary footage of ordinary Poles going about terrestrial business in the final days of Communism.

Even out of time, even incomplete, even now that its director is gone for good, On The Silver Globe endures and its beautiful power will never dim.

It's among the most visually extravagant films ever made.

One can only imagine how influential it would have been had it been completed and released as intended.