Death zone - after the worst-case scenario in Biblis
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death zone - after the worst-case scenario in Biblis |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Joachim Faulstich , Georg M. Hafner |
| production | Helmut Schimkat |
| camera |
Reinhard Burgheim , Jens Meffert |
| cut |
Nina Thomas , Doris Peter |
Death zone - after the worst-case scenario in Biblis, there is a documentary play or documentary fiction by Joachim Faulstich and Georg M. Hafner about a fictitious incident at the Biblis nuclear power plant in southern Hesse near Darmstadt . The film was released in 1991 following the near miss at the Biblis A nuclear power plant and the events surrounding the Chernobyl disaster .
The documentary filmmakers use sometimes drastic images to show what consequences a nuclear catastrophe could have in densely populated Germany. Experts such as district administrators , physicists , economists or meteorologists are asked about the possible effects and consequences of a disaster as well as the state precautionary measures. The film comes to the conclusion that a reactor catastrophe would have extremely devastating consequences for the German population, the state and the economy. In the film, for example, the economist Hans-Jürgen Ewers puts the possible damage at over four trillion German marks (this would correspond to over 3 trillion euros today), and a reactor accident in Germany would result in four to five million cancer cases among the population. The mortality rate due to the radiation released would then be an estimated 50 percent for the sick.
First broadcast
The documentary fiction was first broadcast on the First German Television Program on Thursday, May 2, 1991 at 8:15 p.m.