The Arc (1919)
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…
Director:
Richard Oswald
Writers:
Robert Liebmann, Richard Oswald.
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Leo Connard as Ernst Pogge |
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Eva Speyer as |
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Georg H. Schnell as |
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Oevid Molander as |
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Eugen Klöpfer as |
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Guido Herzfeld as |
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Kissa von Sievers as |
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Emil Lind as |
| Writing | Werner Scheff | Novel |
| Directing | Richard Oswald | Director |
| Camera | Karl Freund | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Robert Liebmann | Screenplay |
| Writing | Richard Oswald | Screenplay |