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The Black Sun

The Black Sun

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The Black Sun

1992

0h 26m

3.7(3 votes)

Science Fiction

Overview

Based on Samuel R. Delany’s short novel ‘Aye, and Gomorrah...’, where the sci-fi premise of radiation-resistant state-neutered space travellers allows the author to explore androgyny, sexual identity, etc. Hammel uses Delany’s story to create a spookily beautiful world where asexual bodies live in the contradiction between their unarousable loneliness and desire for intimacy and contact.

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2 featured cast members

Starring

Eva Maria Klauser

The Woman

Hakan Baykal

The Spacer

Creative team

Directed by: Johannes Hammel
Written by: Johannes Hammel
Michael Kathe
Produced by: Constantin Wulff

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