Cassandra Crossing, The film catalogue

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The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster film with an international star cast. More

The Cassandra Crossing is a disaster film from 1976 made by the production company ITC of the British media entrepreneur Lew Grade.

The film is directed by George Pan Cosmatos, who also made Escape to Athena for ITC, but was best known for Rambo: First Blood II, Cobra and Leviathan.

The film is about a group of heavily armed Swedish terrorists who enter the building of the International Health Organization in Geneva. After a shootout with the security service, they fled into a laboratory where they were infected with a deadly virus. One of the Swedish terrorists manages to escape and flees on the international train to Stockholm that departs from Geneva station with 1,000 passengers. How should a potential public health disaster be prevented?

The budget for the film at the time was $3 million, which was spent on a large star cast including Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster and Martin Sheen.

The film was shot at the Cinecittà studios in Rome, France and Basel. The film fits into a series of disaster films that were very popular in the 1970s. Despite the lukewarm reception from critics, the film was financially successful, mainly due to international success in Japan, but the film was also popular in Europe.

The film has been released on video, Laser disc, video CD, DVD and Blu-Ray in many countries since 1980.

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