Silent Running UHD (4K Ultra HD)

Silent Running UHD4K Ultra HDGenre: Sci-FiLabel: Arrow VideoDescription: In 1968 visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (The Andromeda Strain Close Encounters of the Third Kind) contributed to the ground-breaking special photographic effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Four years later he stamped his own indelible mark on the science fiction genre with his mesmerising directorial debut Silent Running. In the not-so-distant future Earth is barren of all flora and fauna with what remains of the planet's former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens one botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern The 'Burbs) rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was accompanied only by the ship's three service robots. Featuring a captivating central performance by Dern visual effects that rival anything in 2001 and a powerful ecological message Silent Running is a haunting and prescient sci-fi classic that resonates even more strongly today than it did at the time of its original release.