Das Arche Noah Prinzip
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| Das Arche Noah Prinzip | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Roland Emmerich |
| Produced by | Wolfgang Längsfeld Hans Weth Peter Zenk Executive producer Klaus Dittrich Ulrich Limmer Gabriele Walther |
| Written by | Roland Emmerich |
| Starring | Richy Müller Franz Buchrieser |
| Music by | Hubert Bartholomae |
| Cinematography | Egon Werdin |
| Editing by | Tomy Wigand |
| Distributed by | Filmverlag der Autoren |
| Release date(s) | February 22 1984 |
| Running time | 100 min |
| Country |  |
| Language | German |
| Budget | DEM 1,200,000 (estimated) |
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Das Arche Noah Prinzip (aka The Noah's Ark Principle) was a 1984 West German science fiction film from Centropolis Film Productions and Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF). The film was written and directed by Roland Emmerich. The cast featured Richy Müller as Billy Hayes, Franz Buchrieser as Max Marek and Aviva Joel as Eva Thompson. Original music composed by Hubert Bartholomae. This film was shot by cinematographer Egon Werdin
This film received rating of 12 in West Germany, and was filmed in color with mono sound. At the time it was released it was a theatrical feature film developed from German filmschool graduation thesist and had been produced for 1,200,000 (around 600.000 USD), it was the most expensive student film.
The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our future has already begun"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.
