Yellow Cake - The lie of clean energy
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| Original title | Yellow Cake - The lie of clean energy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Joachim Tschirner |
| script | Joachim Tschirner |
| production | Joachim Tschirner |
| music |
Fred Krüger , Wenzel (vocals) |
| camera |
Robert OJ Laatz , Jana Marsik , Lars Barthel , Friedo Feindt , Christian Maletzke , André Götzmann |
| cut | Joachim Tschirner, Burghard Drachsel |
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Yellow Cake - The Lie of Clean Energy is a German documentary film by Joachim Tschirner from 2010. The film deals with the consequences of uranium mining based on the former mining areas in Thuringia and Saxony as well as the large uranium mines in Namibia, Australia and Canada . The film was first broadcast on February 14, 2012 on Arte .
content
Before reunification , Saxony and Thuringia had the third largest uranium ore mining area in the world. A total of 220,000 tons of uranium were delivered to the Soviet Union under the code name Deutsch-Sowjetische Aktiengesellschaft Wismut . Only 0.01 percent of the ore, the so-called yellow cake , was processed into uranium there. The rest were unusable but toxic and radioactive residues. The disposal of this waste is still an unsolved problem and causes enormous costs.
The film leads from Germany to the Namib . Uranium has been mined here in the Rössing mine since 1976 and is supplied to Asia, America and Europe. The remains are radioactive dumps and contaminated fine dust, which is blown into the desert, but also to Swakopmund .
In Australia, in Aboriginal territory, the director visits a landowner. He could make great fortune by selling his land for uranium mining. But he resists because, as he says, he cannot eat money and the destruction of the environment is irreparable.
background
Tschirner shot his long-term documentary from 2004 to 2010 and received support from Um Welt Film Produktionsgesellschaft mbH. The film was also made in coproduction with November Film, Arte , RBB , MDR and was approved by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), the DEFA Foundation , Wismut GmbH, the Thuringian Ministry of Culture, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung , the Filmförderungsanstalt ( FFA) and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg .
reception
In October 2010 the film won the award for the best documentary at the Atlantis Filmfest in Wiesbaden. The laudation says that the film is “very unpretentious, almost cumbersome to a topic” that “could hardly be more explosive”. He snatched “many aspects from the web of secrecy and disinformation” and “brought them to light”. The film takes a “clear position”, but also leaves space for the audience and gives them the chance to “create their own context”.
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the rating “valuable” and said that even for the “thematically very complex and opulent German documentary film”, the film “thanks to its principled and consistent global narrative will, through its high educational impetus , his awareness of the problem and the intensity of the search for clues in the brilliant past, present and future "represents a" remarkable special case ". However, the filmmaker's attitude to" reveal as many complex references as possible "was criticized, which" led to excessive clarity in some places " would lead.
publication
The film is self-rented and was therefore only shown in selected cinemas, the events of which were often organized by anti-nuclear groups.
Web links
- Yellow Cake - The lie of clean energy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Yellow Cake - The Lie of Clean Energy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 646 K).
- ^ Film review. film-dienst , accessed on August 5, 2015 (credits).
- ↑ Program preview . (No longer available online.) RBB , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved August 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Jury statement. German Film and Media Rating (FBW) , accessed on August 5, 2015 .
