* Seattle Premiere *
Die Schneider Krankheit
(The Schneider Disease)
Year: 2008
Director: Javier Chillón
Writer: Javier Chillón
Genre: Sci-Fi
Category: Short
Runtime: 10 min
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish (w/subtitles)
Color: Black & White
Company: Javier Chillón
The fifties, a Russian space shuttle crashes in Germany. The passenger: an astronaut chimp who spreads a deadly virus...
Synopsis: Spring of 1958. A Soviet space capsule crewed by an ape crashes in West Germany. Diplomatic tensions between Germany and the USSR arises. The ape is the carrier of a strange new virus that spreads all over the country. Investigations fail to shed any light on the cure...