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The Noah's Ark Principle

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1984-02-24

Runtime: 100 mins

Director: Roland Emmerich

Writer: Roland Emmerich

Spoken language: Deutsch

Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller

Original title: The Noah's Ark Principle

Production Companies: Centropolis Film Productions, Maran Film, Solaris Film, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München

Production Countries: Germany

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