A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
December 1, 1998
Original Title:
Der Dritte Weltkrieg
Alternate Titles:
Der 3.Weltkrieg
WW III: World War III
World War Three
Genres:
Drama | TV Movie | War
Production Companies:
CineCentrum Deutsche Gesellschaft für Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH
Discovery
RAI
ZDF
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 88
This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
Camera Department Manager:
Matthias Haedecke
Director:
Robert Stone
Manager of Operations:
Guido Knopp
Music:
John Kusiak
Producer:
Ulrich Lenze
Screenplay:
Ingo Helm
Writer:
Robert Stone
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.