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Feature film — 1984

The Noah's Ark Principle (1984)

5.11h 40mScience Fiction — Thriller

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.

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A high-signal pick with 34 votes.

Centropolis Film Productions / Maran Film / Solaris Film / Süddeutscher Rundfunk / Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München

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Director: Roland Emmerich

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Cast & crew

Richy Müller as Billy Hayes

Richy Müller

Billy Hayes

Aviva Joel as Eva Thompson

Aviva Joel

Eva Thompson

Matthias Fuchs as Felix Kronenberg

Matthias Fuchs

Felix Kronenberg

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Nikolas Lansky

Gregor Vandenburg

Franz Buchrieser as Max Marek

Franz Buchrieser

Max Marek

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