23rd German Film Festival 2019 (Golden Village)
Genesis 2.0
Rating
PG13 Some Coarse Language
Language
English with English subtitles
Director
Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
Cast
Peter Grigoriev, Semyon Grigoriev, Spira Sleptsov, George Church, Woo Suk Hwang
Synopsis
Awards Best Cinematography (Sundance IFF), Audience Award (Moscow IFF)
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths.There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost not only releases precious ivory.The tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets for high-tech genetic scientists.They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life à la “Jurassic Park”. Resurrecting the mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero. A Film about the secrets and mysteries hidden within nature and the fundamental difference in view of creation and the role of man in it.