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Where was The Quiet Earth filmed?

1985 film, directed by Geoff Murphy.

  • New Zealand

The story is set in New Zealand, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
New Zealand
Filmed in
New Zealand

About The Quiet Earth

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Released
1985
Director
Geoff Murphy
Cast
Bruno LawrenceAlison RoutledgePete Smith
Genre
Science FictionDisasterPost-apocalypticDramaDystopian
Based on
The Quiet Earth

The story

On July 5, a mysterious phenomenon briefly darkens the sky over Hamilton, New Zealand.

Zac Hobson, a scientist working on Project Flashlight (an experiment designed to create a wireless global energy grid), awakens to find all radio transmissions silent.

At his laboratory, Zac finds his superior Perrin dead and a message indicating that Project Flashlight has been completed.

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