LAND OF OBLIVION

LA TERRE OUTRAGEE

By Michale BOGANIM

LE PACTE - as SALES / DISTR

Drama - Completed 2010


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2011
Contemporary World Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, GERMANY, POLAND
    • Languages
    • UKRANIAN, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 108 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michale BOGANIM
    • Synopsis
    • April 26th, 1986. On that day, Anya and Piotr celebrate their marriage. 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 Pripiat 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?