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Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World

Oct 23, 2014 | IMDB 6.9

96 min Watch Now

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An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.

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H. R. Giger, Leslie Barany, Sandra Beretta, Mia Bonzanigo, Tom Gabriel Fischer, Stanislav Grof

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