The Arc

The Arc

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 5, 1919

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Science Fiction

Original Title

Die Arche

Production Companies

Richard Oswald Produktion

Director

Richard Oswald

Description

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…