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Land of Oblivion

Original title: La terre outragée
  • 20112011
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
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Olga Kurylenko and Nikita Emshanov in Land of Oblivion (2011)
Drama
Chernobyl, 1986: a few hours before the disaster, Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.Chernobyl, 1986: a few hours before the disaster, Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.Chernobyl, 1986: a few hours before the disaster, Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
885
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  • Director
    • Michale Boganim
  • Writers
    • Michale Boganim
    • Antoine Lacomblez(contributing writer)
    • Anne Weil(contributing writer)
  • Stars
    • Olga Kurylenko
    • Andrzej Chyra
    • Ilya Iosifov
  • Director
    • Michale Boganim
  • Writers
    • Michale Boganim
    • Antoine Lacomblez(contributing writer)
    • Anne Weil(contributing writer)
  • Stars
    • Olga Kurylenko
    • Andrzej Chyra
    • Ilya Iosifov
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    • 8User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 12 nominations

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    Olga Kurylenko in Land of Oblivion (2011)
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    Olga Kurylenko and Nikita Emshanov in Land of Oblivion (2011)
    Olga Kurylenko in Land of Oblivion (2011)
    Olga Kurylenko in Land of Oblivion (2011)
    Olga Kurylenko in Land of Oblivion (2011)
    Land of Oblivion (2011)
    Olga Kurylenko in Land of Oblivion (2011)
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    Olga Kurylenko and Nikita Emshanov in Land of Oblivion (2011)
    Olga Kurylenko and Nikita Emshanov in Land of Oblivion (2011)

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    Olga Kurylenko
    Olga Kurylenko
    • Anya
    Andrzej Chyra
    Andrzej Chyra
    • Alexei
    Ilya Iosifov
    Ilya Iosifov
    • Valery - aged 16
    Sergey Strelnikov
    Sergey Strelnikov
    • Dmitri
    • (as Sergei Strelnikov)
    Vyacheslav Slanko
    • Nikolay
    Nicolas Wanczycki
    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
    Dmitriy Surzhikov
    • Andrei
    • Director
      • Michale Boganim
    • Writers
      • Michale Boganim
      • Antoine Lacomblez(contributing writer)
      • Anne Weil(contributing writer)
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    9/10
    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
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    • Release date
      • March 28, 2012 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Ukraine
      • Poland
      • Germany
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    • Languages
      • French
      • Ukrainian
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • Земля забуття
    • Filming locations
      • Chernobyl, Ukraine
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Poisson
      • Vandertastic Films
      • Apple Film Productions
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      • $5,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR

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