The Arc (1919)
1h 10m
Running Time
September 5, 1919
Release Date
Plot.
Engineer Walter Fahr has constructed a massive enger submarine, the 'Gloria'. The vessel undertakes a test journey with various esteemed invitees aboard, together with several animals, and the blind enger 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…
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Release Date
September 5, 1919
Original Name
Die Arche
Status
Released
Running Time
1h 10m
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This Movie Is About.
post-apocalyptic
silent film
Wiki.
Die Arche (The Ark) 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.