Deaf Crocodile and Vinegar Syndrome have announced that they will be releasing the rarely seen Romanian animated sci-fi film The Son Of The Stars (FIUL STELELOR / ULTIMA MISIUNE) on Blu-Ray on February 28, 2023. From directors Mircea Toia and Călin Cazan, the release features a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm picture and sound elements by the Romanian National Film Archive and Cinematheque and the Romanian Film Centre. The film is described as a wild mid-eighties mash-up of The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Tarzan. The Blu-ray edition contains a new interview with co-director Călin Cazan, an essay by acclaimed comic book artist and film historian Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing), and more. Get the details below!
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Synopsis: In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from a female astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son, Dan, on board their ship while they go searching for the missing woman — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.
Like Cazan’s and Toia’s marvelous DELTA SPACE MISSION, THE SON OF THE STARS gets more freakadelic as Dan grows up ala Luke Skywalker, encountering giant disembodied eyeballs, a world of massive decaying Cubist structures, floating purple tentacles, and alien-headed cosmic flowers, and even a sword-wielding medieval Space Knight in armor. His visions of his lost parents and the missing cosmonaut are especially psychedelic, a phantasmagoric blend of Hanna-Barbera and Tarkovsky’s SOLARIS.
- Region A Blu-ray
- New restoration by Deaf Crocodile from the original 35mm negative
- New commentary track by film journalist Samm Deighan
- New interview with co-director Călin Cazan
- New booklet essay by Stephen R. Bissette
- Blu-ray mastering and authoring by David Mackenzie/Fidelity in Motion
- English subtitles
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