Apocalypse ice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Apocalypse ice |
| Original title | Post impact |
| Country of production | Germany , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Schrewe |
| script |
Torsten Dewi Carlos Maria Sanchez |
| production | Phillip Roth |
| music | Guy Farley |
| camera | Lorenzo Senatore |
| cut | Ken Peters |
| occupation | |
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Apocalypse Eis (original title: Post Impact ) is a disaster film from 2004 by director Christoph Schrewe with Dean Cain and Bettina Zimmermann in the leading roles.
action
Every 350,000 years, the comet “Bay-Leder 7” comes so close to earth that it can be seen with the naked eye. In 2010 the time has come again and Gregor Starndorf, whose Starndorf Institute (NLOSI) discovered the comet, and his daughter Anna are watching the comet at a reception at the US Embassy in Berlin . After colliding with an unregistered asteroid , the comet changes its orbit and threatens to crash over Russia in the northern hemisphere.
With the help of the "SolStar2" satellite developed by Starndorf, a microwave beam is to be shot at the comet in order to change its orbit. However, the beam can only split parts of the comet and deflect it off course. Shortly after the impact, Anna took the last plane to leave Berlin, her father stayed behind. Tom Parker, security officer at the American embassy, also gets on the plane, but has to leave his wife and young daughter behind. All of Europe and the northern hemisphere are buried under snow and ice due to drastic weather changes.
In 2013, three years after the impact, the survivors from the north found a new home in Africa. In the Moroccan city of Tangier , the New United Northern States ( New United Northern States , abbreviated NUNS ) with their president Miranda Harrison have their headquarters. When you send a military aircraft on a reconnaissance flight towards Berlin, it explodes and crashes. Apparently someone directed the microwave beam from "SolStar2" onto the aircraft. The satellite, originally planned only as an experimental power plant, was further developed into a weapons system with the participation of the US military. The satellite can only be controlled from Berlin, but the area there is now considered a death zone where no one lives anymore. As his daughter Anna worked on the project in addition to Starndorf, she was flown in from Quito , Ecuador , where she works for a humanitarian organization.
In Tangier, Anna meets Tom Parker, who explains to her that he had seen the military plane crash and was able to recover its flight recorder. The president orders an expedition to Berlin to find the masterminds and to destroy “SolStar2”. Under the leadership of Colonel Preston Waters, Anna, Tom and his dog Sasquatch and Sarah Henley, who previously worked for the British special unit SAS , are involved in addition to a group of soldiers . After Sarah meets Tom, she seduces him in the shower. When it is learned that the satellite is targeting Morocco, there are 48 hours left to prevent the deaths of 4.5 million people. Shortly before the aircraft is destroyed by the microwave beam, the participants of the expedition jump in two tracked vehicles. They land on parachutes on the former border between France and Belgium. The outside temperature there is −52 ° C. A tracked vehicle is destroyed in Cologne and has to be left behind.
Once in Berlin, Tom and Sarah are sent ahead to explore the area. When they discovered the Brandenburg Gate , which was completely buried under snow and ice , they were shot at by strangers, as were the soldiers and Colonel Waters in their tracked vehicle. Shortly before the strangers detonate their vehicles, they escape together into a tunnel. There they meet a little girl who leads them to the Potsdamer Platz subway station , where a group of people live underground. People's lives are organized by someone they only call “the doctor” and who lives in the Reichstag .
The "doctor" turns out to be Gregor Starndorf, who is now blind and dependent on a wheelchair. He also deployed the armed “organizers” who were supposed to distribute food and mediate in disputes, but now work for his assistant Klaus Hintze, who also controlled “SolStar2” behind Starndorf's back. In a firefight with the "organizers", Starndorf is fatally hit by a bullet.
After they managed to break into Hintze's command center, Sarah shot him, although he was unarmed and had surrendered. When Tom leaves the room, Sarah also shoots her supervisor Colonel Waters. She locks the door, forcing Anna to aim the microwave beam at other targets in the Middle East. Sarah was smuggled into the mission by the military to blackmail the Arab states, which control the oil supplies to the northern states, with the microwave beam. For example, a ray fired on Mecca is supposed to bring the northern states out of their inferior role of supplicant. Anna manages to open the door and let Tom in. But Sarah is in control, and while she injures Tom with several shots, she explains to him that she seduced him only to have him in her hand. Sarah is later shot by Anna.
When Tom visits his family's apartment, he is certain that they are dead. Instead of destroying “SolStar2” as ordered, Anna continues her father's idea and lets the satellite shoot a modified beam onto the icy areas, which should lead to a change in the weather situation and, in the long term, a reversal of the Ice Age effect. The plan works.
background
- The television film produced by Unified Film Organization (UFO) and Tandem Communications in collaboration with RTL Television had its world premiere on May 20, 2004 at 8:15 pm on RTL, where it won the day in the target group and with a market share of 26.1 percent reached a total of 4.44 million viewers. Only 19 days later, on June 8, 2004, the film was repeated for the first time in the evening program at 10.15 p.m. and still reached another 2 million viewers. On June 12, 2004, it was broadcast in the USA on the Sci Fi Channel in a slightly modified version in which the nude scene of Joanna Taylor was censored.
- In response to the criticism that the film was a copy of The Day After Tomorrow , screenwriter Torsten Dewi replied that he had the idea for the film long before that; a few days after submitting his second version of the script, the announcement of The Day After Tomorrow could be read for the first time. In fact, Apocalypse Eis was also broadcast the day before the German premiere and a week before The Day After Tomorrow opened in theaters.
- The film was shot entirely in Bulgaria , around 95 percent in the studios of UFO Productions , and a few outside shoots in Sofia .
- The comet "Bay-Leder 7" was named by the scriptwriter after Michael Bay and Mimi Leder , the directors of Armageddon and Deep Impact .
- Around 17 minutes of the film consist of scenes created entirely on the computer, another 20 minutes were digitally post-processed.
- The original working title of the film was Apocalypse Berlin .
Reviews
"(TV) end-of-time drama and disaster film that offers the usual set pieces of both genres to entertain adventurously."
Web links
- Post Impact in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Apocalypse ice cream in the lexicon of international films
- Detailed production history for the film Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 by screenwriter Torsten Dewi