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Cast
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| Pete Postlethwaite | ... | The Archivist | |
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Jehangir Wadia | ... | Himself (as Jeh Wadia) |
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Alvin DuVernay | ... | Himself |
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Layefa Malini | ... | Herself |
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Jamila Bayyoud | ... | Herself |
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Piers Guy | ... | Himself |
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Lisa Guy | ... | Herself |
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Fernand Pareau | ... | Himself |
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| Babou Ceesay | ... | Himself (voice) | |
| Toyah Frantzen | ... | Dutch | |
| Mark Lynas | ... | Himself - Author, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | |
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This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place. Written by Adela Pickles
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year 2008 | runaway climate change | manmade environmental disaster | f rated | year 2055 |Taglines:
Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKRelease Date:
20 August 2009 (New Zealand) See more »Also Known As:
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£650,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£101,752 (United Kingdom), 22 March 2009, Limited ReleaseCompany Credits
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Archivist of the future: Welcome to the global Ark-ive, a vast storage structure located 800 km north of Norway. It contains the artwork from every national museum. There are pickled animals, stacked up, two by two; every film, every book, every scientific report, all stored on banks of servers. But the conditions we're experiencing now were actually caused by our behavior in the period leading up to 2015. In other words: we could have saved ourselves. We could have saved ourselves, but we didn't.
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Written by Chris Brierley
Produced by Paul Sampson & Chris Brierley
Performed by Stupid Orchestra
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The film takes place in 2055. See more »Goofs
At the end of a timeline depicting the disasters Earth has to endure thanks to man's effect on global warming, an image of Earth is shown. Despite all talk of melting ice caps and rising sea levels, Earth's land mass looks exactly as it does when the film was made. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Archivist of the future: Welcome to the global Ark-ive, a vast storage structure located 800 km north of Norway. It contains the artwork from every national museum. There are pickled animals, stacked up, two by two; every film, every book, every scientific report, all stored on banks of servers. But the conditions we're experiencing now were actually caused by our behavior in the period leading up to 2015. In other words: we could have saved ourselves. We could have saved ourselves, but we didn't.
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Orchestral ScoreWritten by Chris Brierley
Produced by Paul Sampson & Chris Brierley
Performed by Stupid Orchestra
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As a scientist (biochemist) almost every day I feel deep pain in my heart when the news shows frustrating human impact on the nature. Maybe 10 years pass since I joined Greenpeace site, but political instability in my country (Serbia) didn't let me to join the Greenpeace world protests, but I plan to participate in the future. The plot of this movie is more than realistic, all scientific evidences predicts very black future if global emission of greenhouse gases doesn't rapidly decrease until 2015. So, plotted 2055. tower whit the Archivist wouldn't be SF... The film have strong green message, and I am 100% sure that I'll watch again and recommend the film to my friends.