Land Of Oblivion
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Land Of Oblivion

Directed by Michale Boganim

Info

Director: Michale Boganim
Section: International Independents
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Year: 2011
PT: Verwundete Erde
OT: LA TERRE OUTRAGÉE
Language: French, Russian, Ukrainian
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Sergey Strelnikov, Olya Josifov, Vyacheslav Slanko, Olga Kurylenko
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

Land Of Oblivion

On 26 April 1986, Anya and Piotr marry. Little Valery and his father Alexei, a physicist at the power station in Chernobyl, plant an apple tree. Nikolai, the forest warden, makes his rounds in the surrounding forests. Then, an accident occurs at the power station. Insidiously, the radioactivity transforms nature. The rain is yellow, the trees turn red. Piotr, a volunteer fireman, leaves to extinguish the flames. He never returns. A few days later, the population is evacuated. Alexei, forced to keep silent by the authorities, prefers to disappear. Ten years later, the deserted region has become a no man's land and a bizarre tourist attraction. Anya comes to the Zone every month as a tour guide, while Valery goes there to look for traces of his father. And Nikolai continues to cultivate a poisonous garden. With the passing of time, will they be able to accept the hope of a new life?

Meet the director

Michale Boganim

Credits

Screenplay: Michale Boganim
Director of Photography: Yorgos Arvanitis, Antoine Heberlé
Film Editor: Anne Weil, Thierry Derocles
Composer: Leszek Mozdzer
Production Designer: Bruno Margery
Costume Design: Svetlana Poberezhna
Sound: Frédéric de Ravignan, Francois Waledisch
Producer: Yaël Fogiel, Hanneke van der Tas, Violetta Kaminiska
Production Company: Les Films Du Poisson
World Sales: Le Pacte
Distributor: Farbfilm Verleih GmbH