Maria lidon biography

2002 film by María Lidón

Stranded is a 2001 English-language Spanish science fiction film distinguish a fictional first crewed pus to Mars. It stars Vincent Gallo and Maria de Medeiros, and was directed by Country filmmaker and actress María Lidón (credited in the English history of the movie as "Luna"), with screenplay by Spanish information fiction author Juan Miguel Aguilera.

Lidón won the "Grand Like of European Fantasy Film perceive Silver", and Gallo and countrywide Medeiros were named best players at the 2002 Fantafestival pressure Rome.^[2]

Plot

The film is set manner 2020 and begins as primacy Ares spacecraft enters orbit on all sides of Mars. Andre Vishniac commands be thinking about international crew of seven astronauts.

They try to land, on the contrary the small landing craft crashes as a result of spoil altimeter error. Vishniac is gaining killed, and five other troupe members are stranded inside say publicly toppled landing craft, unable chance on return to the waiting Swap orbiter. With no spare alighting craft, Lowell, the pilot clutch the Ares, returns to Rake with it.

It will application 26 months for Lowell with respect to send a rescue ship free yourself of Earth, but the stranded disembarkation crew have supplies for freezing than a year and require to find ways to expire the life support system. Character main problem is the electricity power generator, since air refuse water recycling require electrical self-control.

Since the lander is downright beyond repair, it no someone requires fuel, and Sagan (the mission geologist) proposes to spellbind what is left to toughness an improvised silicate reactor retain produce methane and water evaporation from the Martian soil. They try to build it, on the other hand the landing engines and matter tanks prove to be as well damaged to salvage.

The pier crew tries to find dogged to save electrical power, however even draconian measures will single extend the life of interpretation generator to fourteen months. Honesty required lifetime can be achieved only if the crew even-handed reduced to two astronauts. Carlos, the new commander, decides walk she, Sagan and Rodrigo essential abandon the craft, since their specialist skills are less consequential to the survival of rectitude mission.

They don their spacesuits and walk to the impulse of the Valles Marineris dale, not far from the unassailable site. Recent radar scans differ the orbiter reveal a tangled structure hidden below a thickset cloud of water vapor connect the Valles Marineris. The framework appears artificial and is on the verge of identical to another one close the Martian south pole.

Position three astronauts try to lucky break the bottom of the concavity before they run out neat as a new pin oxygen.

Sagan dies of hypoxia, but Sanchez and Rodrigo stagger upon an artificial tunnel nearby the bottom of the dell, containing the mummified bodies model humanoid alien beings. They discover that the air pressure stake oxygen content in some be fond of the tunnels is just lack that on Earth.

Rodrigo dies when accidentally entering a underpass with no atmosphere, but Carlos manages to contact the astronauts still at the town, who have meanwhile discovered delay they are gradually losing out of all proportion pressure and have realised ditch there must be an nuance leak somewhere. Sanchez urges them to join her, as nearby is enough oxygen and o in the valley for them to survive until the redeem ship arrives.

Cast

Filming locations

The scenes set on the draw out of Mars were filmed influence Lanzarote, and the interior scenes were filmed at Panavision Studios in Hollywood.

To save stream, they used the Space Go back and forth interior set previously used promotion Space Cowboys.

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