Pripyat

Austria

1999

100 Min

Black and White

Russian

Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer

After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from this area.
Pripyat is a portrait of the people who still live and work there, and of those who have moved back. What is life like for these people, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity? How do they deal with the aftereffects of an accident which is claimed to be statistically improbable? Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in “their“ zone. —http://www.geyrhalterfilm.com

Director

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Producer, director and cameraman Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna in 1972. At the age of twenty-two he founded his own production company (Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion). Among his films are the award-winning Pripyat, Our Daily Bread and Elsewhere and his latest film is 7915 KM. In 2003 Nikolaus Geyrhalter received the Austrian State Award for Film Art. —doxafestival.ca

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keldon

16Feb12

I've always had a fascination with Chernobyl and Pripyat since seeing a photo of the power plant in a 4th grade textbook. It always seemed so ominous, and I guess playing the Stalker video games and listening to Jacob Kirkegaard's 4 Rooms didn't help. This gave me the humanistic touch I was looking for.

Knut Morte

24Jan12

Definitely not Stalker's Zone...I think there should be a monument put up in the Zone inscribed: We Fucked Up, with signatures businesses and government and people who were involved with the construction of the plant, the decision makers who decided to use nuclear power etc. And another monument inscribed We Have Been Fucked: with a electronic list, so anyone who visits this monument can place their name.