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AD 2048 – The Greenhouse Effect
Producer/Director: Torbjorn Morvik
Production Co: Ying-Yang Films
Year: 1988
Genre: Docu-Drama
Region: World
Duration: 46' Language: English |
Set in the fictional future of the year 2048, this Norwegian film focuses on
the damage human activity and man-made chemicals are inflicting on the
atmosphere, and looks at what the world may be like if global warming
continued unchecked. TV news
bulletins in 2048 report an appalling litany of disaster stories: epidemics
of `super-typhus' spread by rats, plagues of grasshoppers devouring food
crops, and famine relief camps in Europe - while in the Middle East hundreds
are killed fighting over the last remaining water supplies.
The film ends on an optimistic note, with Norwegian Prime Minister
Gro Harlem Brundtland claiming world leaders still have time to head off
ecological catastrophe. Winner of Prix Italia for Ecological Films (1988, Italy) |
