A private investigator who specializes in tracking down runaways takes on a case where the missing person is human but nearly everyone else around her is not, in this near-future thriller.
What is Zone 414 about?
Set in a colony built and populated largely by advanced androids, the story follows a private investigator hired by the colony's own creator after his daughter disappears. Getting her back means moving through a world where telling human from machine is not always simple, and where the colony's usual rules do not fully apply to an outsider doing this kind of work. As the search continues, the investigator has to lean on one of the androids for help, forcing him to work alongside the very kind of creation his job would normally treat with suspicion. The near-future setting keeps the focus on the investigation itself rather than on spectacle.
About the cast
Guy Pearce leads the film as the investigator taking on the case, with Travis Fimmel and Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz in key supporting roles tied to the colony and its inhabitants. Jonathan Aris, Colin Salmon, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Ned Dennehy and Antonia Campbell-Hughes round out an ensemble spread across the colony's human and android population.
Context & significance
Zone 414 is a 2021 American production sitting squarely in sci-fi and thriller territory, running a standard 98 minutes. Rather than building out a wide future world, it keeps its focus narrow, one investigator, one missing-person case, one colony, which suits a story more interested in questions about android identity than in large-scale world-building.
Watching Zone 414 on Ktime
Zone 414 streams on K-Time with a free account login and comes with Persian dubbing, so Farsi-speaking viewers can watch it in their own language rather than reading along. The platform's Farsi-first design and single login cover the rest of K-Time's library as well.