Friendship's Death (1987)

Directed by

Peter Wollen

Genre

science fiction film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British war correspondent meets a female robot from space who has landed in Jordan during the 1970 Black September conflict. She was on a peace mission but ended up in the wrong place. Their conversation explores what it means to be human and to communicate.

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What happens

Friendship's Death is a 1987 film directed by Peter Wollen. Wollen's only solo feature, the film stars Bill Paterson and Tilda Swinton, and is the story of the relationship between a British war correspondent and a female extraterrestrial robot on a peace mission to Earth, who, missing her intended destination of MIT, inadvertently lands in Amman, Jordan during the events of Black September 1970. After digitalization, the film was released as a double edition on DVD plus Blu-ray with English and French subtitles by the British Film Institute in 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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