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Directors: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter Writers: Arnold Bucher, Ivan Engler, Patrik Steinmann Starring: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzorn Brauen, Michael Finger, Pierre Semmler, Claude Oliver Rudolph, Giles Tschudi Cargo takes place in in the year 2267 where Earth has become uninhabitable by man because of environmental deterioration. The human race now populates overcrowded space stations orbiting the Earth as they dream of being able to afford the trip to live on the distant Earth-like planet, Rhea. A terrorist group know as the "Machine Strikers" is threatening the corporate run operations because they question the intentions and truths of what they are being told. Needing the money in order to fulfill her trip to Rhea, we meet Dr. Laura Portmann (Anna-Katharina Schwabroh), who has signed up with Kuiper Enterprises to take a job on-board the cargo ship Kassandra. Kassandra is on an eight-year journey to reach space station #42 in RH278's planetary orbit,...

Quiet Earth has got their hands on a brilliant new trailer for the film Cargo. Cargo will be at the SXSW Film Festival this March and the film blends horror and sci-fi into a breathtaking spacial landscape. The plot is summed up at the SXSW as "the Earth has been destroyed. Mankind lives in orbit; one woman awake on board... [who] finds out...she is not alone" (SXSW). This will be the film's debut in North America, and although the trailer is in German with subtitles, the film shows the horrors of deep space. Have a look at the trailer below and a synopsis here.

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"Space is Cold" (Cargo).

The synopsis for Cargo here:

"The ecosystem of Earth has been destroyed. Mankind lives in orbit. Desperate. A run down old spaceship travelling for 8 years into an unknown future. One woman awake on board, while the rest of the crew lies in cryosleep.

“Pandorum” isn’t the only paranoid movie set in space: there’s Swiss director Ivan Engler’s “Cargo” (10 years in the making, apparently) which you can get a load off via the spectacular looking first trailer for the movie below. The story of Cargo takes place on rusty space-freighter Kassandra on its way to Station 42. The young medic Laura is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura’s shift be over. During her daily patrols, through the eerily empty ship, Laura begins to get the feeling that she is not alone on-board. A discovery mission in the dark and ice-cold cargo hold ends in catastrophe. The remainder of the crew is awakened. A cat and mouse game begins in which nothing is what it seems. What lies hidden in the strange freight containers and who, or what,...