The Noah's Ark Principle

Feb 24, 1984

1h 40m

★ 5.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Science Fiction

Thriller

Production Companies

Centropolis Film Productions

Maran Film

Solaris Film

Süddeutscher Rundfunk

Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München

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Cast

Billy Hayes

Richy Müller

Eva Thompson

Aviva Joel

Felix Kronenberg

Matthias Fuchs

Gregor Vandenburg

Nikolas Lansky

Max Marek

Franz Buchrieser

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