Star Tours
Rays Decipher Space

Projects

Documentary
45 min., German, English, French
Magazine and news films about Philip Morris Research Award
2x10 min, 4x4 min, 4x1:30 min (4 topics)

Producer

SCHWENK FILM

Client, magazine films

Philip Morris Foundation

Broadcast by

SWR, ARTE, ORB, Phoenix, B1, Deutsche Welle
(Documentary, broadcast 22 times)
ZDF, ARTE, 3Sat, Südwest 3, WDR, MDR, DW, RTL, Pro 7, Sat 1, ORF, SF-DRS
(Magazine and news films, broadcast 30 times)

Awards, Festivals

Corporate Film & TV, Award of Master
Téléscience Montréal (documentary, Selection of the Jury)

Documentary content

The fascinating story of the tele-conquest of space to the search for new stars, planets and extraterrestrial life.
With Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes, discoverer of the laser principle,
Max Planck directors Reinhard Genzel and Steven Beckwith,
Planet discoverers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, and
Radio astronomers Gisbert Winnewisser and Rudolf Schieder.
Locations: San Francisco, Berkeley, Zermatt, Effelsberg, Munich, Cologne, Heidelberg.

What's special

Molecules, photons, electromagnetic radiation... too complex, too abstract?
The answer: awe, excitement, mountain scenery and charismatic researchers. "... a great moment in the history of science films" (Stuttgarter Zeitung)

Written, directed and produced Hartmut Schwenk