The first day
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The first day |
| Country of production | Austria , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Prochaska |
| script | Susanne friend |
| production | Andreas Kamm Oliver Auspitz ( MR Film ) |
| music | Stefan Bernheimer |
| camera |
Thomas Benesch Heinz Wehsling |
| cut | Alarich Lenz |
| occupation | |
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The first day is the title of a television film from 2008. The film is a commissioned production by ORF and ARTE and was produced by MR Film . It is about a disaster in the Czech nuclear power plant Dukovany .
action
The radiation measuring point near the Dukovany nuclear power plant near the border reports increased radioactivity. The federal warning center in Vienna and the state warning center Lower Austria are informed. The Czech side assures that it is only a minor incident. When it becomes clear that there is a serious INES level 4 accident , the population in the Horn and Hollabrunn districts is asked not to leave the building and to take potassium iodide tablets . At the same time, checkpoints with measuring and decontamination stations will be set up at the road border crossings. When the wind suddenly turns and the clouds contaminated with radioactive particles are blown to Austria, several Lower Austrian measuring stations report increased radioactivity after the first rainfall. Since the measurements at the measuring stations as well as at the checkpoints determine extremely high levels of radioactivity, the version of a “small” incident is quickly doubted. Ultimately, the operator of the nuclear power plant announced that a reactor core had melted and that extinguishing work was still going on. In the Federal Warning Center this information is passed on as a " GAU " (which obviously must have meant a super-GAU, since no radioactive substances would be released into the environment in the event of a GAU). Thousands of people are now to be evacuated from the affected areas. With this statement, “the first day” of this catastrophe and the film ends.
main characters
The Hirzer family: Karl and Ines Hirzer run a well-run restaurant in which their son Jonathan is currently completing an apprenticeship as a chef against his will. After an argument with his father, he drives away on his moped without his mobile phone and is overtaken by the radioactive fallout.
Schretzer family: Hubert and Karoline Schretzer are farmers; her daughter Marie is in love with Jonathan. When he shows up with his moped in front of her school, the Horn Gymnasium , she skips class and goes with him to make the blue.
Family Renolder: Gregor Renolder works in the state warning center in Lower Austria. He knows the seriousness of the situation and asks his pregnant wife Anna to drive with their son Theo out of the danger area to Gmunden to see her sister.
Friedl family: Friedl family runs a bakery in Horn. Siegmund Friedl is the first to find out about the accident from a Czech friend and tries to persuade the mayor to take action. However, this does not want to warn the population without confirmation from the state warning center in order not to spread panic. During his mission, Friedl was hit by a vehicle and killed.
background
The shooting of the film lasted from the beginning of August to mid-September 2008 and took place in Vienna , Horn , Senftenberg and northern Lower Austria . With a production budget of over one million euros, it is one of the most expensive Austrian films of 2008.
The shooting took place with the involvement of the local volunteer fire brigades and the radiation protection groups of some districts as well as with the involvement of the armed forces . The Federal Ministry of Defense provided 80 soldiers from the NBC defense school in Korneuburg as well as two Black Hawk helicopters and numerous army vehicles for the production of the film .
Since the federal warning center and the state warning center could not be used for the film work, the rooms and equipment had to be reconstructed.
The film has a rather open ending, as it does not show whether the crisis teams will master the situation or whether the worst-case scenario also claims human lives.
The film was broadcast for the first time on the occasion of the theme evening “30 Years of Zwentendorf” on November 6, 2008 on ORF 2 and reached 524,000 viewers with a 22% market share. Another broadcast date was January 17, 2014 on ORF3. Regarding the foreseeable criticism of the film from the Czech Republic, the director Prochaska was asked by Standard even before the film was broadcast : “ Why did you really have to locate the location? "Prochaska responded with" It wasn't about finding a bogeyman [...] The accident could happen anywhere. “Quoted. The standard added the question of whether the Czech government also saw it that way. When asked, the Czech embassy informed the newspaper that it would watch the film. As a result, the Czech ambassador in Vienna, Jan Koukal, criticized on November 7th, 2008, that in his opinion it was " unhappy and directly immoral to confuse and frighten the Austrian public in this way ". An official statement from the Czech Republic is being considered.
Reviews
The standard says:
“The tragedy happens against the background of private fates - we know it from myriads of disaster films: the fearful pregnant woman, unsuspecting teenagers, down-to-earth citizens, innocent children, hesitant officials and of course the one who no one believes. [...] The subtext of the film is problematic. The fear campaign of the ' Crown ' in Temelín is not yet six years old. Jörg Haider wanted to prevent Czech accession to the EU by referendum. More than radiation fear, it was about deep-seated xenophobia. Dukovany is 40 kilometers north of the Austrian border. There are more than thirty reactors, several German and Swiss, within a 200 km radius of Austria. "
On the other hand, Tittelbach judges :
“Chronology of a worst-case scenario. By doing without artificial empathy and anti-nuclear polemics and not using the pattern of the disaster thriller, this film shocks in a very oppressive and realistically sustainable way. Andreas Prochaska's superbly staged TV movie without speculative scare tactics is the ideal reminder for people who have deleted Chernobyl from their memories. "
Web links
- The first day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Still photos for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundesheer supports ORF television film , accessed on November 6, 2008
- ^ A b Doris Priesching: Atomic GAU hits Horn: 'Are prepared.' Der Standard , November 6, 2008 (print edition), p. 33
- ↑ Der Standard / APA: Czech Ambassador in Vienna criticizes ORF film on Dukovany. , Der Standard, November 7, 2008, accessed November 9, 2008
- ^ The first day - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .