# Der letzte Countdown (1980)

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**Original title**: *The Final Countdown*
**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: War, Action, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Don Taylor
**Written by**: David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter
**Starring**: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning

> *Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You blink on deck as radar glitches and the ocean vanishes behind a storm that shouldn’t exist. Then the alarms start and you’re at 1941, engines idling over 1941 water. You’re still the same crew, same war, only the date’s wrong. A pitched dogfight looms beneath you, time folding double.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, playful

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