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The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)94 minDrama, Science Fiction, ThrillerRating 55/100

Pulled from the Cannes competition in the same year that Poland declared martial law, Piotr Szulkin’s tale of alien invasion is a blazing satire of the media machine. Dedicated to H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, this noir-inflected sci-fi is an eerily prescient interrogation of the fake-news era.

Cast: Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Stuhr, Stanisław Tym, Witold Pyrkosz, Zbigniew Buczkowski, Bogusław Sobczuk

Director: Piotr Szulkin