The Arc (1919)

Die Arche

Engineer Walter Fahr has constructed a massive passenger submarine, the 'Gloria'. The vessel undertakes a test journey with various esteemed invitees aboard, together with several animals, and the blind passenger Professor Keigo Sotuma. […] When those aboard the 'Gloria' return to the surface, they find a ship whose entire crew is dead. It is the astronomer Sotuma who figures out what has happened: during their undersea journey, the Earth was scorched by the tail of a comet, and all life extinguished. The 'Gloria' sails back to shore, carrying the final humans into a dead world…

Date of release
1919-09-05
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
Richard Oswald
Collection
Die Arche

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Interesting facts

Die Arche is a 1919 silent science fiction film starring Leo Connard and directed by Richard Oswald. It is a two-part German epic based upon a novel by Werner Scheff. It follows the story of a near future in which civilization has been destroyed.

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