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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.
Mar 10, 1972 · Silent Running: Directed by Douglas Trumbull. With Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint. In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
After the end of all botanical life on Earth, ecologist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) maintains a greenhouse on a space station in order to preserve various plants for future generations.
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Summaries. In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft. In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft.
Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises. 15 February 2021. By Lewis Gordon,Features correspondent. Alamy. (Credit: Alamy) Released in 1972, Silent Running was a kitsch take...
In this sci-fi classic, a botanist (Bruce Dern) who has spent years aboard a space freighter receives orders to destroy his project and return home, but instead rebels and hijacks the vessel. 3,762 IMDb 6.6 1 h 30 min 1972. X-Ray G. Drama · Science Fiction · Cerebral · Sad. Available to rent or buy.
Nov 27, 2023 · Silent Running | One of the most quietly influential films of the 1970s. by Ryan Lambie | November 27, 2023. Share this Article: Douglas Trumbull’s Silent Running was one of the best sci-fi films of the 1970s – and partly thanks to Bruce Dern, it may have helped change cinema history…
