The Noah's Ark Principle

Das Arche Noah Prinzip
Film poster
Directed by	Roland Emmerich
Written by	Roland Emmerich
Produced by	Wolfgang Längsfeld Hans Weth Peter Zenk Executive producer Klaus Dittrich Ulrich Limmer Gabriele Walther
Starring	Richy Müller Franz Buchrieser [de]
Cinematography	Egon Werdin
Edited by	Tomy Wigand
Music by	Hubert Bartholomae
Distributed by	Filmverlag der Autoren
Release date	February 22, 1984 (1984-02-22)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German
Budget	DEM 1,2 million

The Noah's Ark Principle (German: Das Arche Noah Prinzip) is a 1984 West German science fiction film written and directed by Roland Emmerich as his thesis at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF).

While his fellow students typically raised and spent 20,000 Deutsche Mark for their final work, Emmerich managed to collect a budget of 1,200,000 DM (around US$600,000).^{[citation needed]}

This film, shot in color with mono sound, received a rating of 12 in West Germany, and was sold to 20 countries. It was submitted to the 34th Berlin International Film Festival^[1] and received some acclaim^{[citation needed]} for technical skill and special effects, but won no prizes.