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

8.1	Listal rating
8.8	IMDB rating

Directed by

Irvin Kershner

Starring (View all)

Luke Skywalker

Han Solo

Princess Leia

Lando Calrissian

C-3PO

Darth Vader

Chewbacca

R2-D2

Written by (View all)

Leigh Brackett

(screenplay) and

Lawrence Kasdan

(screenplay)

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The Empire Strikes Back Trailer

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STAR WARS MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS part 1

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The force is with you but you are not a Jedi yet..

4 years, 8 months ago at Aug 26 16:28

AgentLexi

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''The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet.''

While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.

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After the success regarding the original Star Wars now titled A New Hope, one would have assumed a regression in q... read more

Empire Strikes Back

5 years, 10 months ago at Jul 23 14:24

Just Another Robot

2 votes

Empire is definitely the best of the series, largely because of the remarkable storytelling. Yoda is perhaps the most finely drawn character, and the training sequences with Luke are deeply life-affirming. A Yoda line I love, and sometimes quote "Do or do not. There is no try."

The Star Wars Empire Has Striked More Than Ever.

2 years, 6 months ago at Nov 23 17:54

SJMJ91

1 vote

After the first Star Wars film was such a huge success, a sequel was a bit of a gamble seeing as sequels aren't usually better than their predecessors. In this case, I found The Empire Strikes Back a lot better than A New Hope. I guess this one opened up Star Wars as a saga not an individual film like A New Hope did especially learning more about the Force, the history of the Jedi Knights and the ... read more

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Description: Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca and the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon, only to be captured by Darth Vader on Bespin. Luke Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by his old me ... (more)

Release date : 21 May 1980

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