Nightfall

Nightfall

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 15, 1988

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Science Fiction

User Score

39%

Original Title

Nightfall

Production Companies

New Horizons

Director

Paul Mayersberg

Description

The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with three suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very Nightfall. Panic erupts as the suns slowly disappear one by one. Science struggles against superstition as the people race to comprehend the approaching Nightfall... the end of the world as they know it. Based on Isaac Asimov's classic story "Nightfall" voted "The Greatest Science-Fiction Story of All Time."