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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.

Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller

Starring: Richy Muller, Aviva Joel

Released: February 24, 1984

Runtime: 100.0

Popularity Rating: 0.442

Centropolis Film Productions, Hochschule fur Fernsehen und Film (HFF), Maran Film, Solaris Film, Suddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)

Germany

Billy Hayes Richy Muller
Eva Thompson Aviva Joel
Felix Kronenberg Matthias Fuchs
Gregor Vandenburg Nikolas Lansky
Max Marek Franz Buchrieser

Camera — Director of Photography: Egon Werdin
Directing — Director: Roland Emmerich
Editing — Editor: Tomy Wigand
Production — Producer: Hans Weth
Production — Producer: Peter Zenk
Production — Producer: Wolfgang Langsfeld
Sound — Original Music Composer: Hubert Bartholomae
Writing — Author: Roland Emmerich