The Noah's Ark Principle

The Noah's Ark Principle

100 mins | Thriller, Science Fiction | Feb. 24, 1984

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.

The Noah's Ark Principle

100 mins | Thriller, Science Fiction | Feb. 24, 1984

The Noah's Ark Principle
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.
IMDb rating 4.9
Producers Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Centropolis Film Productions, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF), Solaris Film, Maran Film
Original title Das Arche Noah Prinzip
Directors Roland Emmerich
Writers Roland Emmerich

Cast

Richy Müller

as Billy Hayes

Aviva Joel

as Eva Thompson

Matthias Fuchs

as Felix Kronenberg

Nikolas Lansky

as Gregor Vandenburg

Franz Buchrieser

as Max Marek