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Friendship's Death

6.8 78 mins Science Fiction   Drama   1987
BFI   Modelmark   Film4 Productions  
Director(s): Peter Wollen

A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, comes to her aid when she is found wandering without papers following a bombing and grants her refuge in his hotel room. But there she tells him she is a robot, sent as a peace envoy from another planet. He is not sure whether to believe her story or not, but finds her unusual view of the world appealing. They examine the human condition in a series of incredibly insightful and entertaining conversations.

Casts of Friendship's Death

Bill Paterson

as Sullivan

Tilda Swinton

as Friendship

Patrick Bauchau

as Kubler

Ruby Baker

as Catherine

Joumana Gill

as Palestinian

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