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Cargo

Switzerland

2009

110 Min
Color
2.35:1
German
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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DIR Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter

PROD Marcel Wolfisberg

SCR Ivan Engler

DP Ralph Baetschmann

CAST Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzorn Brauen, Michael Finger

ED Ivan Engler

MUSIC Fredrik Stramberg

SXSW (Spotlight Premieres), San Francisco (The Late Show), São Paulo (International Perspective), AFI FEST (Midnight)

Synopsis

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 Laura’s shift will 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, is also on-board? —SXSW

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cpc

3May13

OUTER SPACE & HETEROSEXUALITY

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SevenSonicStructures

1Aug12

While it makes painfully obvious the fact that it's visually (and, to an extent, thematically) influenced by the likes of Blade Runner and The Matrix, it's one of the most underrated sci-fi films of the 00s. The lack of proper character development is one of the film's most relevant flaws, although it barely impacts its quality.

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Mathias Palmberg

20Jun11

Great visuals and set designs but the story has been told a hundred times before and way better than this. It starts out pretty strong but after half an hour it becomes painfully obvious that the movie is going nowhere fast.

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oliv.tv

20Feb11

A good SF movie, good ambiance and a good story... Remember me "moon". Congratulation to this swiss production. Un bon film SF, une bonne ambiance et une bonne histoire. Il me fait penser à "Moon". Bravo à cette production suisse.

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TADFF 2010: CARGO review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Eight years. 2 million dollars. Swiss.Make it your mantra when watching Cargo. Cause in the time that it took the filmmakers to put together this nifty offering to the Sci-Fi genre other higher profile
read on Twitchfilm.com

CARGO UK DVD review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
There is a scene fairly early in Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter’s Cargo where, as the camera drifts past the refugees huddled along the decks of the crumbling space station where the film begins, one of them
read on Twitchfilm.com

CARGO English-friendly German BluRay Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
( Swiss – in – Spaaaaaace ! ) With every boy in the world going through the phase of wanting to be an astronaut at some point in his life, it should not be surprising that there are filmmakers in……
read on Twitchfilm.com

SXSW 2010: CARGO Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Swiss science fiction offering Cargo is a difficult film to judge because depending which criteria you use you will arrive at wildly different conclusions. If, for example, you judge the film acknowledging
read on Twitchfilm.com

TADFF 2010: CARGO review

By Twitchfilm.net on August 18, 2010
Eight years. 2 million dollars. Swiss.Make it your mantra when watching Cargo. Cause in the time that it took the filmmakers to put together this nifty offering to the Sci-Fi genre other higher profile
read on Twitchfilm.net

CARGO UK DVD review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 15, 2010
There is a scene fairly early in Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter’s Cargo where, as the camera drifts past the refugees huddled along the decks of the crumbling space station where the film begins, one of them
read on Twitchfilm.net

CARGO English-friendly German BluRay Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 8, 2010
( Swiss – in – Spaaaaaace ! ) With every boy in the world going through the phase of wanting to be an astronaut at some point in his life, it should not be surprising that there are filmmakers in…
read on Twitchfilm.net

SXSW 2010: CARGO Review

By Twitchfilm.net on June 29, 2010
Swiss science fiction offering Cargo is a difficult film to judge because depending which criteria you use you will arrive at wildly different conclusions. If, for example, you judge the film acknowledging
read on Twitchfilm.net

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Hidden non-American sci-fi film, a must-see for genre fans

By Henrik Schunk on May 22, 2012

A solid and virtually unknown sci-fi thriller that can hold its own with films coming from the big H and even surpasses many shallow action flicks both in scope and storytelling. The films draws a…  read review

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