Mission Eureka
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Mission Eureka |
| Country of production | Germany , Italy , France , Great Britain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 420 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Klaus Emmerich |
| script | Ian Curteis |
| music | Paul Vincent Gunia |
| camera | Joseph Vilsmaier |
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Mission Eureka is a seven-part television series that was produced and premiered in 1989. It was a co-production by German, French, Italian and British television companies. The 90-minute pilot was followed by six 55-minute episodes.
action
Science fiction political thriller about a fictional manned European space program Eureka , which is led by project leader Thomas Altenburg. It is under the strong influence of its main industrial financier and profiteer, Leo Graf Waldegg. At the same time, due to its technical immaturity, it is developing into a deadly danger and a financial risk for those involved. Power struggles arise several times over the setting of priorities in the program, the launch of space shuttles, the repair of a satellite and the rescue of astronauts who have crashed. Lobbyism , extortion , investigative journalism , politics , intrigue and manipulation accompany these struggles, which later lead to the secret development of an anti-terror technology, the killer computer .
consequences
1. Reach for the stars (pilot)
2. The decision
3. Dangerous game
4. The turning point
5. The fifth generation
6. The blackmail
7. The killer computer
production
Part of the shooting took place in the Bavaria film studios south of Munich. Model recordings of the space shuttle were also made there . They could be viewed as part of visitor tours.
background
Mission Eureka was produced as the first ZDF - Eurovision project. Gordon McGill wrote a novel of the same name for the series . The German first broadcast of the series took place from October 9, 1989 to November 19, 1989 on ZDF. It was repeated on 3sat in 2000 .
In contrast to the earlier actual project of a European space glider ( Hermes ), which was supposed to launch at the tip of an Ariane rocket , the technical concept of the fictitious European space shuttle is more closely based on the concept of the American and Russian space shuttles of the time. The space shuttle sits on the side of the main rocket flanked by two boosters. The launch vehicles of the fictional space shuttle are designed as further developments from the Ariane program. Compared to the American and Russian space shuttles, however, significant visual changes have also been made to the space shuttle itself (examples: the bow and stern taper to a point, smaller lateral wings at the front and rear).
The story of the main character Thomas Altenburg was continued in 1993 in the series The Sahara Project .
criticism
“Very poor in trick technology, the series focuses on the private relationships and love affairs of the protagonists. All in all a thoroughly unsatisfactory and artificial project. "
Web links
- Mission Eureka on fernsehserien.de
- Mission Eureka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] Mission Eureka on fernsehserien.de
- ^ Mission Eureka: Reaching for the Stars in the Lexicon of International Films