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Released
1984 · FILM

The Noah's Ark Principle

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Written by
Runtime
100 min
Language
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DramaSci-Fi

Synopsis

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.

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Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tomy WigandShot by Egon WerdinScored by Hubert BartholomaeDesigned by Matthias Kammermeier

Box Office

1984 · Box office

Produced on a $600K budget

Production budget

$600K

Also known as

  • Das Arche-Noah-Prinzipde
  • The Noah's Ark Principleen
  • El principio del arca de Noées
  • Le Principe de l'arche de Noéfr
  • 1997 - Il principio dell'arca di Noèit

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