2012

In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley comes to India to visit his best friend, astrophysicist Satnam Tsurutani, who is conducting research in a copper mine 3.5 km deep and discovers that the neutrino flux caused by an unprecedented solar flare heats up the Earth's core, and the temperature is rising very quickly. Although Adrian notes that this is impossible, since neutrinos do not interact with the matter of the Earth, Satnam suggests that neutrinos in a flash are transformed into a new kind of particles, which affects the core of the Earth, warming it up. After 20 hours, Adrian arrives at a charity event in a Washington hotel and tries to convince the head of the presidential administration, Karl Anheuser, to read his report. Soon after reading, an agitated Anheuser demands a car and takes Adrian to report to US President Thomas Wilson that this warming up will cause a chain of events that will inevitably lead to a global cataclysm.

At the G8 summit in 2010, accompanied by protests and riots, the US president, in the absence of outsiders (even interpreters), informs the leaders of other states about the impending catastrophe. Then it was decided to start building nine giant ships in China — "arks" capable of preserving humanity as a species. For the construction, the Chinese authorities are resettling a village in the Zhuo-ming Valley under the pretext of building a huge dam and recruiting workers from local residents with welding and construction skills.

additional information: 2012" was supposed to be released on July 10, 2009, then the release date was changed to November in order to have a great financial success. The film was released on Friday, November 13, 2009 in Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Mexico, India and the United States and on November 21, 2009 in Japan.

The DVD and Blu-ray of the film were released on March 2, 2010. 2 discs of the Blu-ray edition include more than 90 minutes of special materials, including Adam Lambert's "Time of Miracles" clip and Digital Copy for PSP, PC, Mac and iPod. The European DVD release date is March 26, 2010, it includes the same special materials as in the North American version.