Land of Oblivion ( La terre outragée )

Land of Oblivion (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La terre outragée
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Ukraine ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Michale Boganim

Written By:
Antoine Lacomblez
Anne Weil

Actors:
Olga Kurylenko ..... Anya
Andrzej Chyra ..... Alexei
Ilya Iosifov ..... Valery - aged 16
Sergei Strelnikov ..... Dmitri
Vyacheslav Slanko ..... Nikolay
Nicolas Wanczycki ..... Patrick
Nikita Emshanov ..... Piotr
Tatyana Rasskazova ..... Anya's mother
Julia Artamonov ..... Karine
Natalya Bartyeva ..... Léna
Marina Bryantseva ..... Mowgli
Vladyslav Akulyonok ..... Valery - aged 6
Dmitry Surzhykov ..... Andrei

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Original language audio with English & French subtitles***The film opens on a sunny day - April 26, 1986 - detailing the lives of a series of people living around Pripyat, the town nearest the Chernobyl site. Anya (Kurylenko) and fireman Pyotr (Nikita Emshanov) are married a few hours after the reactor blows, and after Pyotr is called up to attend to the blaze he is never seen again; physicist Alexei (Andrzej Chyra) understands what happens and orders his wife and son to leave, but ordered to keep silent by the authorities decides to vanish, while forest warden Nikolai (Vyacheslav Slanko) refuses to abandon his home…he argues that he didn't leave during World War II why would he now? The opening sequences are handled with subtly. There are no explosions, flames or sequences of the disaster itself. Instead Pripyat of 1986 is impressively recreated, with the implications of the explosion coming with the sight of a white wedding cake being drenched in black rain and small birds and animals dying. The tone switches completely in the second part, set in 1996 (and partly shot at actual locations around Chernobyl) with Anna now a dour tour guide showing visitors around the area; Alexei's 16 year-old son Valery (Illya Iosivof) returns to the region to look for his father, and elderly Nikolai cultivates his garden, unaware of the poisons in the fruit he tends. The film itself is both gentle and powerful - a low-key look into the horrors that continue to have a terrible impact on the region.

Tchernobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.

Well-intentioned but underwhelming drama of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 08 July, 2013.

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