Wounded earth
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wounded earth |
| Original title | La terre outragée |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michale Boganim |
| script | Michale Boganim |
| production |
Yael Fogiel Laetitia Gonzalez |
| music | Leszek Możdżer |
| camera | Giorgos Arvanitis |
| cut |
Hervé de Luze Thierry Derocles Anne Weil |
| occupation | |
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Wounded Earth (Original title: La terre outragée ) is a French drama and the feature film debut by Michale Boganim from 2011 . It tells the story of a young woman whose life has been significantly affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . It is the first feature film in the Chornobyl area . On the occasion of the presentation of her film, Boganim criticized the fact that the authorities expressed the wish to present the "rescue measures in Chernobyl as a heroic deed". The film is dedicated to Nikita Emshanov, who died in 2011.
action
It is April 25, 1986. Anya and the fireman Piotr from Pripyat look confidently into a future together. They just got married and are celebrating their wedding with friends and family. At the river, the physicist Alexei is looking forward to a day off that he can spend with his six-year-old son Valery. The two plant an apple tree and also enjoy the time together.
This idyll is suddenly destroyed when Block 4 explodes in the neighboring Chernobyl nuclear power plant . Anya tries to stop her newlywed husband from doing his job, but in vain. Piotr and Alexei rush to the scene of the accident to help with the extinguishing work and to take measurements of the radiation activity. In the hours that followed, the residents of Pripyat did not find out what happened. It gradually becomes clear that the explosion has led to a disaster. Soldiers in protective suits come into the place and begin evacuating it . Anya rushes to the city hospital, but there all she learns is that Piotr has received a high dose of radiation and that she will not be let through to him. Otherwise she would die too. Alexei continues to take measurements in the city. He notices that the stress on the residents will increase due to the heavy onset of rain and, in his desperation, buys a large number of umbrellas, which he distributes to residents who are outdoors.
Ten years later Pripyat has become a ghost town . Anya now lives in the city of Slavutytsch, which was specially built after the catastrophe . She works there in a small office that offers tourists tours of the disaster area. But actually she doesn't like this job. Her inner despair becomes clear when one day she introduces a group of tourists in the coach to the visit with the following words: “It was a modern city. The most beautiful in all of Ukraine. When she was evacuated, 50,000 people had to go and were not allowed to take anything with them. The past is like a strange land that leaves me with no peace. I just can't forget it. ”A city worker woos her in vain because she fell in love with the French scientist Patrick. On the one hand, she hopes that he will take her to Paris and that she will be able to leave the unreal place; on the other hand, she is rooted in her homeland and does not want to move away. He asks her to marry him and travels with her to Odessa . She had chosen this city as the destination of her honeymoon ten years ago - but at that time still with Piotr. Anya realizes that she doesn't want to leave and leaves Patrick. Valery, now 16, also visits Pripyat with his mother and a group of mostly older women. They remember the dead of the disaster. Valery's mother also let her son understand that Alexei was dead. But Valery doesn't want to believe it, leaves the group and wanders around town. He visits his old school building and the abandoned apartment. There he leaves a message for his father on a wall. Finally, Valery is picked up by soldiers and taken back to Slavutich. What he does not find out: His father is actually alive. Mentally confused, he wanders around the train stations in the region, looking for the names of the victims. To do this, he addresses passers-by at random and asks them their names. When asked why he was doing this, he simply replied, “To have a clue. [...] It is important to at least write them down. "
Anya finally returns to Slavutych. She takes refuge in a bus shelter from the onset of rain. Valery happens to pass by there. He came home from school and told his new classmates about his experiences after the disaster. Their looks only meet briefly, because Anya is now wearing a wig due to her progressive hair loss . Valery rushes past and Anya continues on the next bus.
criticism
Tobias Sunderdiek from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung likes the film's “strong images”, such as the black precipitation that interrupts the wedding party. For him, the film is “overall sustainable”, even if it appears to be “somewhat constructed” in part. The Cinema sees in the film a 'Ghostly-oppressive scenario ".
Web links
- Land of Oblivion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Wounded Earth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 995 K).
- ^ Wounded Earth , arte website, accessed November 25, 2014.
- ↑ Tobias Sunderdiek: Subtile Chernobyl Drama: Wounded Earth on arte . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 25, 2014, accessed on November 25, 2014.
- ^ Wounded Earth , website of cinema.de, accessed on November 24, 2014.