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The Noah’s Ark Principle
Das Arche Noah Prinzip While his fellow students typically raised and spent
20,000 Deutsche Mark for their final work, Emmerich
managed to collect a budget of 1,200,000 DM (around
600,000 USD).[citation needed]
This film, shot in color with mono sound, received a
rating of 12 in West Germany, and was sold to 20 coun-
tries. It was submitted to the 34th Berlin International
Film Festival[1] and received some acclaim[citation needed]
for technical skill and special effects, but won no prizes.
Plot
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, ca-
pable 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 dev-
astation to any potential adversary simply by creating
natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder
Directed by Roland Emmerich the space station soon becomes the central point in ris-
ing political tensions between East and West, next stop
Produced by Wolfgang Längsfeld
Hans Weth World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our
Peter Zenk future has already begun"). We follow the main protag-
Executive producer onist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he
Klaus Dittrich wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to
Ulrich Limmer
tell friend from foe in the process.
Gabriele Walther
Written by Roland Emmerich
Cast
Starring Richy Müller
Franz Buchrieser • Richy Müller as Billy Hayes
• Franz Buchrieser as Max Marek
Music by Hubert Bartholomae • Aviva Joel as Eva Thompson
Cinematography Egon Werdin • Matthias Fuchs as Felix Kronenberg
• Nikolas Lansky as Gregor Vandenburg
Editing by Tomy Wigand
• Matias Heller as Security Guard
Distributed by Filmverlag der Autoren
Release date(s) February 22, 1984 (1984-02-22) References
Running time 100 minutes [1] "Berlinale: 1984 Programme". berlinale.de.
http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/
Country West Germany
jahresarchive/1984/02_programm_1984/
Language German 02_Programm_1984.html. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
Budget DEM 1,2 million
External links
The Noah’s Ark Principle (German: Das Arche Noah Prinzip)
is a 1984 West German science fiction film written and • Das Arche Noah Prinzip at the Internet Movie Database
directed by Roland Emmerich as his thesis at the
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF).
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