Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)






Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, Luke, Han, and Leia are part of a special combat unit on a mission to the Hoth system. While on the mission, Luke is attacked by a Wampa creature and rescued by Han. The team then faces an all-out battle against enemy forces in the frozen landscape. Following the battle, Luke sets off to study with the Jedi Master Yoda, while Han and Leia seek refuge in Cloud City with Han's friend Lando. However, Lando, under pressure from Darth Vader, betrays them and Han is captured and frozen in carbonite. The group must also confront the threat of bounty hunter Boba Fett.


Film programs

Cinema Programm nr. 8

Books on Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Rebecca Harrison
The Empire Strikes Back
London; New York, NY, 2020

Jonathan Rinzler
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back
2010

Books with substantial mentioning of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Beth A. Fhaner (editor), Devra M. Sladics and Jeff Hermann (Contributing Editors)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1998, 17th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1997
Detroit; London, 1998

James Robert Parish
Ghosts and Angels in Hollywood Films, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 264 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1994

Articles on Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Kim Newman, Still stuck in the '70s, in: Empire, nr. 208 (October), 2006 pp. 146-147

Articles with substantial mentioning of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Tom Rogers, Of Black Holes, Vulcans and The Force, in: Films in Review, vol. 31, 1980 pp. 21-29, 42

Dan Jolin, The Top 10 movie mentors, in: Empire, nr. 208 (October), 2006 pp. 66-67

Reviews

Tom Rogers, The Empire Strikes Back, in: Films in Review, vol. 31, 1980 pp. 439-440

Jay Holben, Star Wars Trilogy, in: American Cinematographer, nr. (January), 2005 pp. 20-22 (DVD review)