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Budget $18,000,000
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for sci-fi action violence.
Running Time
2 hours, 4 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1997)
• Das Imperium schlägt zurück (1980)
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Epic, Fantasy, Swashbuckler, Aliens, Space, Robots, Suspense, Tragedy, Futuristic, Cult Classic, Betrayal, Love, Supernatural
Tagline: The Adventure Continues...
Plot: Considered the most morally and emotionally complex of the original Star Wars trilogy, THE EMPIRE STRIKE BACK continues creator George Lucas’s epic saga where STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE left off. The Rebel Forces--which include young adventurer Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), rogue pilot Han Solo (Harrison Ford), and the beautiful but seemingly humorless Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)--have been successful in destroying the Evil Empire’s Death Star. However, the Empire’s top commander, the terrifying Lord Darth Vader (played by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones), is scanning the galaxy for the Rebels' secret location. After a visually stunning showdown on the ice planet Hoth, the Rebels are forced to flee, and Luke separates from Han and Leia. Masterful storytelling weaves multiple, archetypal plotlines that pit Vader against Han and Leia as he desperately attempts to capture Luke for political--and, secretly, personal--reasons. Luke, meanwhile, finds himself under the tutelage of the tiny but powerful old Jedi Master Yoda, who teaches him the ways of the Force and warns the impatient but talented student against the threat of the Dark Side. Greek tragedy meets a philosophical hero’s journey in EMPIRE, a remarkable sci-fi epic in which the performances are as powerful as the
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| Written by |
George Lucas
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
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| Cast |
Mark Hamill
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars, Laputa: Castle in the Sky |
 | Harrison Ford
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Blade Runner |
 | Carrie Fisher
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars, The Blues Brothers |
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 | Anthony Daniels
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi |
 | Frank Oz
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi |
 | Alec Guinness
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia |
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John Williams
Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark |
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