German label Koch Media has officially announced and detailed its upcoming SteelBook Blu-ray edition of director Douglas Trumbull's
Silent Running (1972), starring Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, and Ron Rifkin. The release will be available for purchase on April 17th.
Synopsis: A botanist has spent eight years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the freighter, killing his fellow crewmen, injuring himself, and plunging the craft into the gaseous rings of Saturn.
Special Features:
- Original trailer
- Audio commentary with Douglas Trumbull and Bruce Dern
- Making of featurette
- Two Interviews with Douglas Trumbull
- Interview with Bruce Dern
- Super8-Fassung/Super8 Version