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From the liner notes

Controversial director Andrzej Zulawski is Poland’s wildest artist-outlaw, and his cranked-up genre films are as notorious as they are remarkable. On the Silver Globe, a science fiction epic that was banned by authorities before completed, remains his best-known and least-seen work.

In this disturbing glimpse into the future, a group of space pioneers crash-land on the Moon, where they begin a colony. All of the adults die off save one, who becomes known as the Old Man. The children revert to a primitive lifestyle, creating their own myths, deities, and social classes. Years later, a space bureaucrat from Earth arrives on the scene and is hailed as their great messiah.

Zulawski began his film in the mid-1970s but the production was halted by authorities. The wily director rescued his negative from destruction and escaped to France, where he became known for his artistic but violent films. In the last days of Communism, Zulawski returned to Poland and finished On the Silver Globe. Though never completed to Zulawski’s original vision, this sci-fi epic is as fascinating as it is unsettling.