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Contact(Movie, 1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 30min | Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
ContactRating: 3.7/5 (with 19191,919 votes)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. It also stars Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey, and ()
Movie poster of Contact

Where to watch Contact (cinema/streaming/download)?

"Contact" is currently available on 3 providers. Contact can be streamed free of charge on VIDEOBUSTER.de (as part of a subscription), can be rented on Amazon Instant Video and VIDEOBUSTER.de (SD/HD/4K) and Contact can also be purchased at Amazon Instant Video, Apple / iTunes Store and VIDEOBUSTER.de (as download from the website or as Blu-ray Disc/DVD).

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Awards & Nominations for Contact

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Academy Award for Best Sound

About Contact

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

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Trailer for Contact + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Contact Trailer #1 (1997) | Classic Trailers(Trailer, 2:23)

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Additional Information

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on the work of: Carl Sagan ("Contact")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Russian (RU)
Translated into 36 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/09/1997 (World premiere: 07/11/1997)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"接触未来"
"コンタクト"

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