Overview
- Sat.1 broadcasts The Martian on Feb. 1 at 20:15 local time in Germany.
- The film is also available to stream on Disney+ and to rent or buy on Amazon, Sky, Apple TV and MagentaTV.
- The story follows astronaut Mark Watney, presumed dead and left on Mars during NASA’s Ares III mission, as he works to contact Earth.
- Watney’s survival tactics include cultivating potatoes in Martian soil using human waste as fertilizer.
- The movie holds strong scores with audiences and critics (IMDb 8.0/10; Rotten Tomatoes 91%) and earned about $630 million on a reported $108 million budget.