La terre outragée (2011)

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

Director:

Michale Boganim

Writers:

Michale Boganim, Antoine Lacomblez (contributing writer)

Stars:

Olga Kurylenko, Andrzej Chyra, Ilya Iosifov

1 win & 11 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Olga Kurylenko	...	Anya
Andrzej Chyra	...	Alexei
Ilya Iosifov	...	Valery - aged 16
Sergey Strelnikov	...	Dmitri (as Sergei Strelnikov)
Vyacheslav Slanko	...	Nikolay
Nicolas Wanczycki	...	Patrick
Nikita Emshanov	...	Piotr
Tatyana Rasskazova	...	Anya's mother
Julia Artamonov	...	Karine
Natalya Tkachenko	...	Léna (as Natalya Bartyeva)
Marina Bryantseva	...	Mowgli
Vladyslav Akulyonok	...	Valery - aged 6
Dmitriy Surzhikov	...	Andrei

Storyline

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

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Plot Keywords:

female nudity | bare breasts | f rated | ferris wheel | missing father | 

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Taglines:

25 years ago, life was sweet in Chernobyl

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Japan]

Country:

France Ukraine Poland Germany

Language:

French Ukrainian Russian

Release Date:

28 March 2012 (France)

Also Known As:

Land of Oblivion

Filming Locations:

Chernobyl, Ukraine

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Films du Poisson,Vandertastic Films,Apple Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min (theatrical)

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

Million Alyh Roz
Written by Raimonds Pauls and Andrei Voznesensky

User Reviews

From the Toronto International Film Festival Website

La Terre Outragée will turn heads. This beautifully textured drama about the Chernobyl disaster and its long-term legacy was shot on location, giving the film a shocking sense of immediacy. The camera captures the sobering reality of the environmental catastrophe that devastated Ukraine. But the eerily vacant landscape is only a backdrop to the human cost of the tragedy, which is what director and writer Michale Boganim focuses on in her authoritative feature debut.

The film begins in pastoral reverie as a young couple drifts down a sun-dappled river, a place where boys frolic and fishermen dip their rods. Anya (Olga Kurylenko) and Piotr (Nikita Emshanov) are about to be married, but news arrives of an accident at the nuclear power plant, and Piotr, a firefighter, is summoned away from his nuptials. Soon rain begins to fall — black rain — and the disaster's full dimension starts to percolate into the consciousness of the people of Pripyat, a town only a few kilometers away from the power station.

A few years later, Anya is now a local guide for curious tourists who don radiation-proof suits and bus through the town snapping photos of a transformed world. Like many others, Anya finds herself caught between leaving and staying.

As her heroine struggles with her demons, Boganim depicts a community that, despite the dangers, refuses to leave its history behind. The residents' houses — derelict, abandoned and overgrown with weeds — nestle within an area still contaminated with too much radioactivity to be safe, but the lure of the place they call home is like a siren. Squatters move in to family houses while relatives of those killed find themselves trapped and unable to make sense of it all. The aftermath of Chernobyl is fully exposed, forcing us to imagine what a nuclear future might look like — something the people of Fukushima have only just recently contemplated.

Piers Handling

Source: http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/landofoblivion