The Sahara Project

Movie
Original title	The Sahara Project
Country of production	Germany , Spain , Italy , France , Great Britain
original language	German
Publishing year	1993
length	360 minutes
Age rating	FSK No age limit
Rod
Director	Hans Noever
script	Helmut Krapp , Horst Vocks
production	ZDF , Antenne 2 , Bavaria Film , Channel 4 Television Corporation, Radio, Radiotelevisión Española , Radiotelevisione Italiana , Schweizer Fernsehen (FS), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
music	Nellis Du Biel
camera	Arthur W. Ahrweiler
cut	Claudia Minzloff
occupation
Occupation: Peter Bongartz : Thomas Altenburg Michael Degen : Count Leo Waldegg Delia Boccardo : Giovanna Waldegg Renan Demirkan : Dr. Ayse Erkin Anne Kasprik : Eva Bosch Laura Sadler : Laura Helmut Berger : miner Sebastian Koch : Toni Waldegg Rüdiger Vogler : Olaf Greiner Heinz Bennent : Dreesen Jean Sorel : Dhouzain Peter Ehrlich : Wieland Gottfried John : Collani Jürgen Hentsch : Harald Dahlhaus Veronica Ferres : Julia Dahlhaus Angelika Bartsch : Evita Ploog

The Sahara Project is a four-part German television film by Hans Noever from 1993.

action

The researcher Thomas Altenburg has been working on the “Sahara Project” for years. Europe is to be supplied with solar power from the desert. Altenburg hopes for the help of his arch rival Count Leo Waldegg. Leo Waldegg becomes his partner in this project. Arthur Bergmann and Olaf Greiner are also part of his research team. Then Thomas Altenburg is confronted with his past, in which he developed a poison gas that was used against civilians in North Africa. Altenburg and Waldegg decide to continue the project despite the morally questionable origin of the funding. At the same time, work is being carried out on the alternative plan of generating energy by means of a gigantic collector field in an orbit and transmitting it to the earth using microwave lasers. As part of the plot, the consequences of global warming are shown . Sylt is sinking into the sea and the polar ice caps are melting.

background

As a continuation of the Mission Eureka series , the film was produced as a Eurovision project under the leadership of ZDF together with ORF , SRG , RAI , Channel 4 and Radiotelevisión Española .

It was first broadcast on German television on October 25, 1993; in Great Britain the multi-part series was first seen on September 27, 1995.

criticism

“A sinfully expensive European co-production that barely leaves out an international setting and hardly any more or less appropriate political involvement to spice up its ultimately poor story. Despite good actors, it is on the verge of (involuntary) parody. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The Sahara project in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Sahara Project. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 17, 2017 .