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story identification - 70s/80s SciFi film (or series episode?) where a spaceship has only one rescue capsule, so the crew members start killing each other


LATER EDIT: This questions has been resolved, and if the title made you interested in the movie, but you would like to avoid spoilers by reading my more detailed description or the answers, let me just tell you that the movie I have been looking for is Hyper Space (1989). Having re-watched the movie in the mean-time, I would also like to add that I did in fact misremember a few things, so the description below is not accurate in some points. I decided to leave it like that anyway.




I'm looking for a movie that I once saw on German TV in the early 00s. At least I think it was a movie - I cannot say for sure that it wasn't an episode of some TV series. What ever the case, I'll try my best to describe what I can recall about it.


The film is set on a spaceship with a crew of roughly six to ten people. The ship needs to be evacuated, but no rescue mission is possible right now - maybe they are too far away from Earth, maybe their communication devices have failed, I don't remember. There is only one rescue capsule and it might be unclear whether the rest can be rescued at a later time.


Somehow, they determine who will go on the capsule. Maybe there's a logical reason for their choice, maybe they draw sticks - I don't remember. The lucky person is a 30-to-40-ish man who I imagine with a moustache when I try to recall his looks.


For some reason, the lucky person stays (has to stay?) on board a little longer. During that time, some crew members try to kill him, some try to convince him to let them go instead of him, some get killed in other ways (I guess).


In the end, the man with the presumed moustache is the only living person left on the ship when he finally enters the rescue capsule and the movie ends.


One particular scene I remember features a woman trying to seduce the man in order to convince him to let her use the rescue capsule. He plays along for a little while, but he doesn't fall for it and ultimately leaves saying something along the lines of "I will always remember you when I think of something very cheap!" ("Ich werde immer an dich denken, wenn ich an etwas ganz Billiges denke!" in German, if I remember correctly - maybe he says something different in the English version). I think the woman was Black and short-haired, but I'm not one hundred per cent sure with either of these properties.


I may have misremembered some of these things, so don't hesitate to suggest movies that do not match my description in all points.


The movie I am looking for is not among the following ones: Trapped in Space (1995), Lifepod (1993), Lifepod (1981)



Answer




This seems to be the very obscure sci-fi thriller Hyper Space (AKA The Black Forest: Rage in Space, AKA Space Rangers) from 1989. From Encyclopedia.com:



Six people awaken from cryogenic sleep to discover that their spaceship has become marooned lightyears from earth and only a single passenger shuttle is available to get someone home. Naturally, everyone wants that one chance.



And you can see the line you quoted (or at least half of it) in the trailer, where a woman with short dark hair tries to seduce a man with a moustache who tells her in contempt (around 01:25): "I'll always remember you..." Here's the trailer, which is 90% people just punching one another (and as an added bonus, here's the German version):





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