Genres
Production Companies
Maran Film
Solaris Film
Süddeutscher Rundfunk
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
The Noah's Ark Principle (Das Arche Noah Prinzip)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Roland Emmerich
Producer: Hans Weth, Wolfgang Längsfeld, Peter Zenk
Director of Photography: Egon Werdin
Writer: Roland Emmerich
Top Cast
Richy Müller
Billy Hayes
Aviva Joel
Eva Thompson
Matthias Fuchs
Felix Kronenberg
Nikolas Lansky
Gregor Vandenburg
Franz Buchrieser
Max Marek
