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Note: written and directed by Roland Emmerich the same guy that directed Stargate the movie.

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Das Arche Noah Prinzip

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Directed by	Roland Emmerich
Produced by	Wolfgang Längsfeld Hans Weth Peter Zenk Executive producer Klaus Dittrich Ulrich Limmer Gabriele Walther
Written by	Roland Emmerich
Starring	Richy Müller Franz Buchrieser
Music by	Hubert Bartholomae
Cinematography	Egon Werdin
Editing by	Tomy Wigand
Studio	Centropolis Film Productions
Distributed by	Filmverlag der Autoren
Release date(s)	February 22, 1984 (1984-02-22)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German
Budget	DEM 1,2 million

Das Arche Noah Prinzip, also known as The Noah’s Ark Principle, is a 1984 West German science fiction film written and directed by Roland Emmerich as his thesis at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF).

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 countries. It was submitted to the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival 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, 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.

External links

• Das Arche Noah Prinzip at the Internet Movie Database

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